Cultivation of cattle for receiving meat – business labor-consuming and long. That the bull-calf reached live weight in 400-450 kg, he should be fattened not less than one and a half year.
It is required to you
- - the concentrated forages;
- - milk, colostrum and skim milk;
- - root crops;
- - hay;
- - grass;
- - salt.
Instruction
1. Choose for cultivation of a calf of heavy meat breed. On sagination it is desirable to get young growth not more young than monthly age. If you got a cow, and she brought an issue, then a vypaivayta to a newborn calf colostrum, and then milk each 3-4 hours on 1.5-2 liters within a week. Then gradually increase norm of milk, and reduce the number of feedings by 3 weeks to 3 times a day.
2. Put deciduous hay in a feeding trough, the calf will choose leaflets, it promotes emergence in his stomach of useful microflora, chewing muscles become stronger and gradually chewing gum appears.
3. From 15-20 day age milk can be diluted with fresh skim milk, a vypaivayta not less than 4-6 liters in a day. You watch that the forage was not sour, differently disorder of intestines can begin. But it is quite possible to accustom from 1-1.5 months a calf to fresh curdled milk on acidophilous ferment. Continue to watch that always in a feeding trough there was a hay or a grass.
4. From two-week age begin to add concentrates to milk. It is better to take well sifted porridge in number of 100-150 g a day. Make it in the form of porridge or directly in a dry form pour into milk. In process of growth of a bull-calf increase quantity of a grain forage and by 3 months give already 1.5 kg a day
5. Root crops begin to give early too, from 3 weeks it is possible to add to swill of a little crumpled boiled potatoes. And since a month separately feed the crude fodder beet grated, in process of growth of a calf – simply cut. The quantity of juicy forages reaches 2-3 kg by 3 months.
6. Vypasayte from 1.5-2 months of a bull-calf on a pasture or give it a grass, and during the winter period – in plenty Sena. If there is an opportunity, then continue to give to drink skim milk or curdled milk. From it weight will increase more intensively.
7. The six-month calf is fed already by 2 times a day with the bourgeois consisting of tired concentrates, the crushed hay or hay dust, chopped root crops. If you support a bull-calf in the afternoon on a pasture, then hay can be excluded from the bourgeois. In day feed not less than 3 kg of concentrates and 10 kg of juicy forages. Gradually increase norm in process of growth of an animal.
8. Since a year the bull is already given up to 5 kg of a grain forage a day and up to 20-25 kg of juicy. Hay and a grass - in plenty. Since a year of a bull-calf it is better to castrate, then he will quicker gain weight. Besides, the castrated animal behaves more quietly and does not constitute danger to people around.