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Practical Experience in Fattening Thin Cattle in Winter and Spring
In the slack farming season of winter and spring, buy a few thin cattle in poor body condition at the market. After about 2 months of feeding, each head can gain 90-100 kg. Select good thin cattle. Thin cattle caused by poor feeding management, low-quality feed, heavy work, or having limb disabilities that do not affect the fattening effect, or suffering from parasites, are the preferred subjects for efficient and rapid fattening. ⟦4 <p>In the slack farming season of winter and spring, buy a few thin cattle in poor body condition at the market. After about 2 months of feeding, each head can gain 90-100 kg.</p><p></p><p>Select good thin cattle. Thin cattle caused by poor feeding management, low-quality feed, heavy work, or having limb disabilities that do not affect the fattening effect, or suffering from parasites, are the preferred subjects for efficient and rapid fattening.</p><p>Disease prevention and deworming. Newly purchased cattle must undergo a comprehensive examination. Only healthy ones may be injected with vaccines against foot-and-mouth disease, brucellosis, and Clostridium welchii disease before being admitted to the barn for mixed rearing, and deworming and stomach conditioning should be carried out before formal fattening.</p><p>Fattening in stages. The fattening period for thin cattle should generally be controlled at 50-60 days and can be divided into three stages: The first stage (6-8 days) is mainly to train the cattle to go to the trough and learn to eat mixed feed. The second stage (10-12 days) is mainly to restore body condition, gradually increasing the amount of mixed feed in feeding. The third stage (35-40 days). Increase the daily amount of mixed feed fed to each head of cattle, and provide sufficient high-quality green grass, dry hay, or ammoniated straw feed.</p><p>Careful management. During the fattening period, try to create a warm, quiet, and comfortable living environment for the thin cattle. In the later stage of fattening, pay attention to observing the growth condition of the cattle and sell them promptly.</p>
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How to Raise Fish and Ducks Together? Practical Farming Experience Shared
Fish-duck polyculture is mutually beneficial and is a new way to increase farmers' income. Ducks moving in the water can eat frogs, tadpoles, aquatic insects and other organisms harmful to fish; fish can make use of duck manure, leftover feed and other waste produced by the ducks, keeping the water clean and the environment good
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Clever Use of Garlic in Chicken Raising: These Practical Tips Are Very Useful
Garlic contains about 2% volatile oil, whose main component is allicin. It is a plant antibiotic that inhibits and kills pyogenic cocci, E. coli, tubercle bacilli, anthrax bacilli, molds, protozoa and others. The fat-soluble volatile oil and other active ingredients in garlic
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How to manage a chicken flock during a disease outbreak? A summary of practical poultry-raising experience
After a disease outbreak in a chicken flock, it is essential to promptly take measures such as isolation, culling, or medication. However, because an outbreak also causes physiological dysfunction, the flock's ability to adapt to the environment and its nutrient requirements both change. If at this time you
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Practical Tips for Saving Feed in Chicken Raising
Choose and raise excellent breeds. Chickens of excellent breeds not only have good production performance, but also have a high feed conversion rate. Use complete feed. Complete feed is comprehensive and balanced in nutrition; feeding chickens with complete feed will not cause waste of nutritional components. Implement restricted feeding. For medium-sized laying hens,
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How to store chicken vaccines? Practical storage experience shared
Nowadays, many specialized chicken farmers and chicken farms buy vaccines from manufacturers or veterinary departments to vaccinate their chickens for disease prevention, and this practice should be encouraged and vigorously promoted. However, many breeders or chicken farms mistakenly believe during the transportation and storage of vaccines
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Practical Experience Sharing on Cage Culture of Grass Carp
Grass carp mainly feeds on grass. It often inhabits places with lush aquatic plants and is a middle-to-lower-layer fish. Its optimum growth temperature is 20-30°C, and it has a large food intake. Above 32°C or below 15°C, its growth rate slows markedly and its food intake decreases. When the water temperature is below 10°C, it stops feeding and enters a state of winter dormancy,
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Practical tips for increasing the meat yield in meat rabbit farming
In commercial meat rabbit production, weaned (around 30 days old) young rabbits are generally used, fattened for a short period (that is, fattening of young rabbits), and slaughtered when their body weight increases from about 0.5 kg to 2.5 kg, with the aim of producing more rabbit meat. In commercial meat rabbit production, in addition to looking at the final output, it is also necessary
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How to Regulate Dissolved Oxygen in Fish Ponds? A Full Breakdown of Practical Measures
Regularly add fresh water. Under high-density farming conditions, fish ponds contain more leftover bait and waste, and anaerobic fermentation produces harmful substances such as ammonia nitrogen and hydrogen sulfide, deteriorating the water body. This is especially true in high-temperature seasons, when water quality deteriorates faster. Therefore, regularly adding water is one of the most commonly used and most economical and applicable methods for regulating water quality.
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How to prevent crab diseases in winter? Six practical methods to master
First, freeze and sun-dry the pond bottom. After the crab pond is cleaned, clear the drainage ditches, use machinery to pump water regularly, and try to let the pond bottom undergo severe freezing and sunlight exposure for about one month, so as to improve the soil condition of the pond bottom and allow some pathogens to be killed by freezing and sunlight exposure.
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