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Unless you are short of pasture the easiest and cheapest way to raise beef cattle is to let the calves harvest the grass and not worry about feeding grain. If you don't have the time to feed grain properly, it is simpler just to grow beef cattle on pasture.
FEEDING ORPHANED CALVES
If you teach it to drink milk from a bucket much of the nutritional value is lost because it goes into the rumen.
Feed with a nursing bottle, the suckling reflex creates the direct pipeline into the true stomach.
CALVES ARE CURIOUS
Cattle, especially calves are curious and often get into trouble.
They will chew anything plastic and this may plug the digestive track and be the cause of death. String will also cause a serious problem.
Be on the look out for dumped waste i.e. car batteries which can poison them even if they are just licked.
Make sure there is nothing to injure their feet.
CHAPTER - 3 PASTURES, FENCING, HOUSING WHERE TO RAISE
Cattle can be raised with no pasture by feeding them hay and grain or other harvested feed or entirely on forages/roughage they harvest themselves when grazing.
FEEDING ORPHANED CALVES
If you teach it to drink milk from a bucket much of the nutritional value is lost because it goes into the rumen.
Feed with a nursing bottle, the suckling reflex creates the direct pipeline into the true stomach.
CALVES ARE CURIOUS
Cattle, especially calves are curious and often get into trouble.
They will chew anything plastic and this may plug the digestive track and be the cause of death. String will also cause a serious problem.
Be on the look out for dumped waste i.e. car batteries which can poison them even if they are just licked.
Make sure there is nothing to injure their feet.
CHAPTER - 3 PASTURES, FENCING, HOUSING WHERE TO RAISE
Cattle can be raised with no pasture by feeding them hay and grain or other harvested feed or entirely on forages/roughage they harvest themselves when grazing.