Warm protection measures to ensure safe winter for beef cattle in cold winter

Beef cattle

In winter, when the weather is cold and the grass is dry, the nutritional conditions of beef cattle are generally very poor, which brings a lot of disadvantages to beef cattle in winter. Therefore, only by taking good protective measures can beef cattle survive the winter better.

1. Pay attention to getting fat before winter. In order to ensure the safety of beef cattle through the winter, autumn fat must be grasped after autumn. The use of autumn is neither hot nor cold, beef cattle have a good appetite, and grass should be made good use of when grazing. If the cow eats well and absorbs a lot of nutrients, it can accumulate some oil, resist the cold and keep healthy.

2. Pay attention to the heat preservation of the barn. A warm barn can reduce the heat loss of the cow, so the barn must be repaired before winter to prevent the attack of thieves.

3. Pay attention to the amount of feeding. Cattle stomach volume is large, each coarse feed should not be less than 6 kilograms per day, forage and concentrate should be more diversified, can not always feed one kind of feed.

4. Pay attention to drinking water. The insufficient metabolism and body temperature of beef cattle are regulated by water, because water has a better heat preservation effect. Sprinkling a handful of wheat bran on the water surface when drinking water can prevent binge drinking. Pregnant cows try to use warm water to drink, which is beneficial to keep warm and protect the fetus.

5. Be careful not to be extensive. Feed straw feed coarse, must be crushed into 3 cm before feeding, after crushing the straw utilization rate is high, beef cattle eat easy to fat.

6. Pay attention to feeding the cattle regularly. Maintaining a normal digestive state is conducive to the fattening and strengthening of cattle; irregular, easy to cause digestive disorders, cattle will be due to hunger, overeating, leading to some diseases.

7. Be careful not to feed moldy and spoiled feed. Mildew and deterioration will be transformed into toxic substances, resulting in beef cattle feed poisoning, beef cattle will sometimes cause a large number of deaths after eating. Therefore, do not feed moldy and deteriorated feed, and the storage management of feed must be strengthened.