Cattle Feeding For Beginners - Tips From Cattle Owners On The Right Type Of Feeding Systems

There are a few cattle feeding systems. Each has
their own positive and negative aspects of it.
For you to be able to choose the right one, you
must discover which would suit the needs of your
cattle farming.

First, get acquainted with the different styles
of cattle feeding. There is the seed stock where
the breeders focus mainly on developing the
genetics of the cattle. There is also the
cow/calf feeding where the farmers produce cows
and calves for commercial purposes. The
stocker/grower feeding style is where farmers
feed their cattle on pasture as well as forage.
And the grow yards/back grounding style of
feeding focus mainly on feeding the cattle with
mostly forage to light weight calves. And
lastly, there is the custom/commercial finishing
yards. Cattle are made to gain weight of 1000 to
1500 pounds and then they are harvested.

You now have to determine why you are raising
cattle so that you'll be able to decide which
cattle feeding system you will use. As you
probably know by now, the diet of cattle has at
least some forage in it, this includes grass and
silage. Most if not all cattle are actually
pasture-fed from birth until seven months
onward. Their diet consists of mostly grass. But
as they get older, to fatten them up and increase
their diet, they are fed with small amounts of
hay and straw coupled with soy and other grain
materials. There have been many debates as to
how cattle should be fed that would also be
beneficial to the society. It's up to you to
choose among different systems that would fit
your wants.

There are three feeding systems. First would be
the grazing systems. The cattle are simply
grazing in pastures and grasslands with hardly
any crops as part of their diet. Next there is
the integrated livestock-crop farming system.
Aside from pasture, the cattle's diet now
includes crops or crop residues plus fallows.
This is the widely used system because it is the
most resourceful and is profit-oriented. The goal
is to have high levels of production.

And last among the cattle feeding systems is
the industrial production. The cattle are fed
not in land, but in feedlots, pens, and stalls.
This cattle feeding system attains the highest
for stocking density among the three systems.
This type of system includes drugs as part of
the cattle's diet, such as hormones and feed
additives.

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