There are various facts which one thinks about when it is the question of feeding beef cattle. There are option about how one can feed and how to feed them if taken into account otherwise your cattle will become underweight. A proper nutritional diet from a calf feeding bucket will help the cattle gain weight possible with proper living conditions yielding best quality beef.
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Best feeding Tips for Your Animals
- Stage One- The calf stage
When the animal is still a calf, it is best to let under the care of the mother for at least a week or so. Make sure that the calf has tasted the mother’s milk before you take the calf away from mother. Try to teach the calf to feed from a bucket. Try dipping one or two fingers in the bucket and let the calf suck the milk like the mother’s teat. This will help it to get its own milk.
- Stage Two- The yearling stage
After a certain phase, the food they eat becomes a little more complicated as it not just milk. Choose the right mix of nutritional foods as it is the main purpose here for the cattle’s welfare and development. There is different traditional food for feeding cattle like corn, barley, wheat providing various nutritional benefits.
- Stage Three- Cattle supplements for minerals
Different micro or macro minerals are required to eat as cattle supplements. They can help in the cattle development for bones and body’s functions. Their meat also becomes tasty. Try mixing the supplements with water and food in a calf feeding bucket and feed the animal.
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