What are the common mistakes in making your own sheep feed? Farmers should avoid them
Raising sheep is a very important farming undertaking in China. The market price of mutton is high, and market demand is also very large. When raising sheep, if you want to improve farming efficiency, you need to reduce farming costs. And the best way to reduce farming costs is to start with feed. Therefore, many people now make their own sheep feed. However, many people make their own sheep feed with many mistakes. So what are the common mistakes in making your own sheep feed? Let's take a look below!
1. More feed varieties is not necessarily better
Many sheep farmers, when making their own sheep feed, think that the more feed varieties the better. In fact, this is completely wrong. When making our own sheep feed, we should control the types of feed according to the sheep's growth stage and nutritional needs at the time, and just meet the nutritional needs of the sheep at that stage. If there are too many feed types, causing excess feed, then it is very unfavorable to the growth of the sheep. In particular, the proportion of minerals in the feed, if it is too much, then the sheep is very likely to show poisoning, but nutrition must not be incomplete either, otherwise it will also affect the growth of the sheep.
2. Not mixing ingredients according to standards
When making your own sheep feed, the first thing is that everyone needs to reasonably formulate it according to the sheep's growth stage and nutritional needs. Because sheep have different nutritional needs at different growth stages, if you feed blindly without mixing ingredients according to standards, then not only will it fail to promote the growth of the sheep, but it will instead hinder the sheep's development. So when mixing ingredients, we must never do it blindly. According to the different growth stages of the sheep, we should control the levels of energy and protein well. We must never rely on only one formula standard, making our own feed all the way to slaughter.
3. Blindly adding non-nutritive additives
Blindly adding non-nutritive additives is also a mistake that many sheep farmers make when making their own sheep feed. Reasonably adding some growth-promoting additives to the feed can indeed inhibit the activity of harmful bacteria, promote the growth of sheep, and improve the production performance of sheep. When fattening sheep, you can also properly feed some muscle-building fattening feed, and the fattening effect on sheep is also quite good. But if you add blindly, or add repeated drugs of the same type and use antibiotics without restriction, then it will lead to excessive drug residues in the sheep's body, produce drug resistance, and so on, which is very unfavorable to human health.
4. Protein is not the higher the better
Protein is a very important nutrient in the growth process of sheep. Because when sheep carry out metabolism, growth and development, protein is absolutely indispensable. However, we should also pay attention to controlling the protein content well. The protein content must never be too much. If the protein content is too high, it will not only affect the development of the sheep's lungs, kidneys and other internal organs, but also cause very great pollution to the environment, so everyone must pay a lot of attention.
The above is a brief introduction to the common mistakes in making your own sheep feed. That is all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only, and I hope it can help everyone!