Easy tips for picking healthy calves!


Release time:

2019-06-06

Beef is rich in protein and low in fat, so it tastes delicious and is loved by people. In addition, beef also increases immunity, iron and blood, can improve the body's disease resistance and other effects. As the nutritional value of beef is well known, beef cattle breeding has become the new darling of the breeding industry, and novice farmers will buy calves to raise, so how to choose healthy calves?

 Beef is rich in protein and low in fat, so it tastes delicious and is loved by people. In addition, beef also increases immunity, iron and blood, can improve the body's disease resistance and other effects. With the nutritional value of beef is well known, beef cattle breeding has become the new darling of the breeding industry, and novice farmers will buy calves to raise, so, how to choose healthy calves?

 

CalfPurchase method:

Look at the fur color.

Healthy calves have smooth and shiny fur, while diseased cows have dull and mixed fur. Sellers sometimes brush sick cows and look like healthy calves, but their fur is still darker than healthy cows and more astringent than healthy cows when touched by hand.

Look at the cow's eye

The eyes of common calves are flexible and spiritual, and their eyes are moist and clean. However, the eyes of problematic calves are turbid and have no appearance. They are often closed. The eyes are not clean and there are many sundries secreted.

Look at the status

Healthy calves are active, with bright eyes, bright fur, erect ears, and an interest in their surroundings. When a calf is lying in the barn, if a breeder arrives, a healthy calf will often stand up and bow its back and stretch its limbs in a generally more satisfying posture.

Look at the feces

The excrement of calves is increasing day by day, and the excrement is slightly thicker than that of pure milk, indicating that the feeding amount is normal. With the increase of feeding amount, the defecation time of calves will form a new rule, mostly defecation before and after feeding every morning and evening. The feces melted together in countless clumps, shiny and soft like adult cow dung.

The above is the method of selecting healthy calves, cattle novice can be selected by the above identification methods. The breeds of calves are friendly and bad, big and small, expensive and cheap. Different breeding patterns and their own breeding conditions, the choice of calves are different. Farmers generally try to select fast-growing beef cattle, such as Simmental and Charolais.