Winter cattle should be careful of cold dehydration

In winter, there are few green fodder and low quality, the water storage mechanism of cattle feed is blocked, and cold dehydration is easy to occur, which is more common and serious than hot dehydration in midsummer. Therefore, no matter raising dairy cows, serving cattle or beef cattle and pregnant cows in winter, if they can provide physiological regulation water, nutritional nourishing water, activating blood circulation and strengthening bone water and Yimu calming water respectively according to the different conditions of cattle, which is beneficial to the healthy overwintering and fetal development of cattle.

Cattle drink water in winter

First, drink physiological regulation water: physiological regulation water, which can not only cool water, but also heat up water. 1. Cooling with water: cattle eat a large amount of dry food in winter, which can easily lead to imbalance of water and material, increased internal fire, elevated body temperature, restless cattle, loss of appetite, constipation, urine scalding and so on. Can take cold drink, guide drink, mix drink and other methods to cool down, often give sufficient clean cold water; each adult cow each time with 0.3-0.6 kg of soju or 0.2 kg of urea mixed into 5 kg of cold water, let the cow smell self-drinking; can also put the fed straw in water for 3-5 hours in advance, can remove the internal fire. two。 Heat up with water: if the winter is cold, the weak cattle should heat the water to 40 ℃, and feed it with 30-50 grams of salt or 100 grams of soy sauce per kilogram of water. It can also be fed with warm water, which can drive out the cold and enhance appetite.

Second, drink nourishing water: according to the different conditions of the cow, the following three kinds of nourishing water are fed: 1. Fat nourishes water. Grind the fat feed such as bran cake, peanut cake, sesame cake, cottonseed cake and vegetable cake into powder, take 3-5 kg per cow day, add 2-4 kg of distiller's grains, 10 kg of chopped grass, 100 g of salt and 15 kg of hot water. two。 Egg whites nourish water. Soak the bean cake (dregs) in the proportion of 1:10-15 in cake water and feed it. 3. Trace elements nourish water. Trace elements can be added to drinking water, and each calf is fed with 5-10 mg of zinc, 6-12 mg of iron, 4-8 mg of calcium and 10-15 mg of magnesium for a continuous winter.

Third, drink Huoxue Qianggu: there are two kinds of commonly used Huoxue Qianggu: 1. Qufeng Chushi decoction: take loquat leaf 1 kg, eight comb maple 0.5 kg, thatch root 1 kg, orange peel 1 kg, Angelica 20 g, Atractylodes macrocephala 25 g, Chinese wolfberry 30 g, lily 25 g, ginseng 20 g, decoction together, rice wine 2-3 kg, daily morning, middle and evening feeding 1-2 kg, generally drinking for 15 days can recover. two。 Qianggu Fatting Soup: take 1-2 kg of fresh dog bone, or 2-3 kg of fresh goat bone, or 3-5 kg of fresh pork chops, 15-20 kg of stewed bone soup, 100-150 g of salt, then burn the bone into ash and mix it into the bone soup. Let the cattle drink 2-3 kg at a time for a week.

Fourth, drink Yimu Antai water: Yimu Antai water is beneficial to protect pregnant cows and promote embryonic development. Take 80g of Angelica sinensis, 60g of Codonopsis pilosula, 50g of Atractylodes macrocephala, 150g of Coix barley, 25g of ginseng, 120g of jujube seed, 20g of gypsum, 15g of Coptis chinensis, 20g of honeysuckle, 200g of motherwort, 40 tablets of calcium, and can also be soaked in 70-100 ℃ water for 5-7 hours. In the whole winter, pregnant cows can be fed with 2-3 doses once every 3-4 weeks, which can make the cows fat strong and the embryos healthy.