IMPROVEMENT OF EXISTING AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEW RECIPES FOR FEED MIXTURES FOR CALVES UNDER 6 MONTHS

Abstract

The article states that the traditional system of breeding repair young cattle has significant drawbacks that restrain their growth and development and affect further milk productivity: excessively long milk period, overconsumption of dairy feed, limited feeding of compound fodder-concentrates, delay in the period of formation of the ruminant type digestion.
In accordance with the above, under the condition of feeding calves according to modern feeding schemes, earlier development of the ruminant type of digestion, it is proposed to differentiate compound feed-concentrates for calves under 6 months of age into compound feed-concentrates for calves aged 1 to 3 months, compound feed-concentrates for calves aged 3 to 6 months.
The basis of feed mixtures for young cattle up to 6 months of age are such feed materials and feed additives as wheat, corn, barley, sunflower cake, soybean cake, sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, vegetable oil. The difference in animal feeding consisted in the fact that the compound feed-concentrate for young animals aged 1 to 3 months includes a protein vitamin supplement for calves aged 1 to 3 months, for calves from 3 to 6 months - a protein vitamin supplement for calves aged from 3 to 6 months.
Protein-vitamin supplement for calves aged 1 to 3 months 5% is developed on the basis of 0.5% premixes for calves with a live weight of up to 100 kg, protein-vitamin supplement for calves aged 3 to 6 months is based on 0.5% premixes for young cattle.