Five kinds of forage that cattle and sheep can't eat when the temperature is low in late autumn and early winter.

raising sheep

Late autumn and early winter are seasons of unstable and variable temperatures. The impact on animals and plants is very large. During this period, special attention should be paid not to let cattle and sheep eat five kinds of fodder.

1. Dew grass. The weather gets cooler in late autumn and early winter, and the leaves of grass are often covered with dew drops in the morning and evening. Cattle and sheep eating this grass can cause rumen bloating. Therefore, grazing cattle and sheep in late autumn should wait for the sun to rise in the morning, after the dew disappears, and in the evening before the dew appears.

2. The soft skin on a corn cob. It's the soft skin that comes off the cob after harvest. Corn cob soft cortex soft sweet, cattle and sheep like to eat, especially when hungry, often swallow the whole piece. Some farmers are busy with farm work, in order to save time, do not cut short, do not mix grass, directly feed cattle and sheep with the whole piece of corn cob soft skin, this is very dangerous. Because corn cob soft skin although sweet, cattle and sheep like to eat, but it contains a lot of crude fiber, toughness is particularly strong, not suitable for chewing and digestion, in the flap stomach aggregation caused by obstruction, a long time will ferment, corruption, gas production, and produce a large number of toxic substances, resulting in acidosis death of the body.

3. After harvest sorghum, corn second crop seedlings. After autumn harvest sorghum, corn two crop seedlings, contains a lot of hydrocyanic acid. Hydrocyanic acid is a highly toxic substance, cattle and sheep eat it is easy to occur poisoning. You can't use this second crop as fodder for cattle and sheep, nor can you graze cattle and sheep in fields with second crops.

4. Frost-beaten castor leaves and stems. In late autumn, the leaves and stems of castor bean hit by frost contain a toxin called ricin, which is easy to poison cattle and sheep after eating it.

5. Half dry and half wet sweet potato seedlings. Cattle and sheep eat a lot, it is easy to suffer from intestinal obstruction disease (also known as constipation, knot disease). Because sweet potato harvest, its seedlings have been aging, seedling coarse fiber increased, after a few days of sunlight, its coarse fiber becomes more soft, and has toughness, cattle and sheep eat, these flexible and not easy to break the coarse fiber in the intestinal tract entangled into a group, some blocked in the large intestine, some blocked in the small intestine. If the disease is not diagnosed and treated in time, it is easy to cause death.