Low-cost, high-efficiency feeding techniques to make beef cattle grow fast

Fattening local yellow cattle grows slowly and gives poor results. For fattening feeder cattle, choose crossbred cattle from improved breeds such as Charolais and Limousin, which can better exploit beef cattle heterosis. After 90 days of fattening, the average daily gain can reach 1.28 kg to 1.46 kg, with good returns.

Deworm cattle before they enter the pen

During grazing and housing, cattle are highly susceptible to parasite infections. To eliminate the parasites' drain on the cattle's nutrients, deworm beef cattle before they enter the pen. Ivermectin (Chongkexing) can be used for deworming. If using powder, it can be mixed into feed, 0.1 g per kg of body weight. If using an injection, 0.2 g per kg of body weight.

Create a good environment for beef cattle

Although cattle can resist cold, doing so consumes a lot of nutrients, so cattle must eat more feed to maintain their own needs and keep warm, and only the surplus can be used for gaining meat. If nutrition cannot meet their needs, they will also draw on their own fat reserves, and the cattle will become thin and lose weight. Raising cattle this way is very uneconomical and greatly increases feeding costs. Therefore, when raising beef cattle in winter, first of all there must be a warm, hygienic, dry, non-damp and fresh-air environment.

Make rational use of roughage

Cattle are herbivores, so roughage should be the main feed and concentrate a supplement. However, in farming areas there is little high-quality green hay, not enough to go around, and feeding straw roughage provides too poor nutrition and has low digestibility, serving only to fill the belly. For example, after ammoniation, the nutritional value of wheat straw can be raised from 5% to 9%, cattle like it, and cattle feed intake can increase to 20%. Also, after ammoniation of rice straw, organic matter digestibility can increase by 19.7%, crude fiber digestibility by 22.8%, and cattle feed intake can increase to 30%.

Make full use of distiller's grains and residue feeds

In farming areas there are large amounts of distiller's grains, tofu residue, sugar residue and soy sauce residue, with high yields. They are good feed for cattle, far better than for pigs and chickens. However, their nutrients are unbalanced, and especially when fed alone the results are poor, and cattle are prone to digestive disorders and nutritional deficiency diseases. Only with rational matching will good feeding and weight-gain results be achieved.

Feed additives to promote beef cattle weight gain

Urea Urea is a high-quality fertilizer and also a good protein supplement feed. This is because the rumen of cattle harbors hundreds of millions of microorganisms that can use urea and break it down into the bacterial protein the cattle need, for the cattle to absorb and grow meat, which can save part of the protein feed.

Rumenin Feeding cattle rumenin mainly reduces the degradation of protein in the rumen, increases the amount of bypass protein, promotes the utilization of heat energy and nitrogen, and speeds up beef cattle fattening.

Buffers Feeding cattle buffers can noticeably improve the metabolism, absorption and utilization of nutrients in cattle. Using a compound buffer to fatten beef cattle can increase the weight-gain rate of beef cattle by more than 12%, and up to more than 15.04.

Rare earth feed Feeding cattle feed containing rare earth, at a dosage of 0.5%, for 100 days of fattening, increases daily gain by 33.32%, reduces feed consumption by 2.73 kg, and lowers feeding costs by 32.42%, so there is great need to apply it.