Growing Quality Beef Cattle Beef cattle are called ruminants because that belong to the group of animals such as goats, deer, and other cattle species. Ruminates Utilize roughages like hays or grasses for the major part of diets that their digestive system makes into nutrient needed in their body. Rations of Grains, oil seeds, by products, with small amount of vitamins or minerals to have a healthy full diet that maximizes yield per head of cattle. Ruminates can hold up to 50 Gallons or 189 liters of Fluid capacity in digestive organs just in their rumens. Cattle also need a certain amount of proteins, energy and nutrients which the feed makes up of need to be balanced to maximize the productive inside the animal. The rumen is filled with …show more content…
Most beef cattle live for 200 days and have to be feed a different ration can change 10 or more times depending on the farm. Many rations need to be planned and changing one will change all because if you need more for one group you need to take away from other rations. It is very complicated because many other feeds will need to be bought to fill a need if feed runs low or will run out. There are over 100 different feed you can put in and so many different ways to mix them up and there are also many Minerals pre-mixes and byproducts that can also be added so the different number of mixes are innumerable. Cows eat what they like, not what they need. Cows will eat until full, given voluntary free-choice access to feed. Cows do not balance their nutrients or nutritional needs, only their intakes. In fact, cows can only balance four things, the air They breathe, Water they drink, amount of feed they consume each day if free choice food accessible and salt intake if they lakes in their diet (Hamilton, 2015), (Burton, …show more content…
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