Cattle Diets and Nutrition

Cattle get rid of waste in the form of feces, urine and sweat. Feces come from the "leftovers" of what a bovine ingested and digested, which pass from the stomach chambers through the intestines to the rectum. Urine is comprised of water, urea and toxins that were filtered by the kidneys from the blood and is stored in the bladder to be emptied via the urethra, which would exit from the vagina of the cow or heifer, or the penis of the bull or steer. Sweat for most bovines not of the subspecies B. p. indicus comes from the nose, and are essentially sweat glands that excrete contents filtered from the blood.

That all depends on what kind of feed you're referring to: alfalfa cubes, hay, grain, or silage? It also depends on the current prices for such feeds, which are variable at that, never fixed. As such, the question can't be answered because it lacks specifics and time frame.

So the cattle get enough macro and micro minerals such as salt, cobalt, iron, iodine, magnesium, selenium, copper, etc.

The exact contents change as the world prices for a whole range of potential ingredients change - any feed will be formulated at minimum price to produce a palatable feed of the right nutritional analysis that can be processed efficiently. The list of ingredients that are and have been used is almost without end but includes any cereal, lucerne, soy, cereal and oilseed processing by-products, such as milling waste, canola meal, brewing waste, such as spent grain, etc etc etc. Many of these by-product ingredients are very traditional and have specific names, such as middlings, biscuit meal, wheatfeed etc.

A single cow needs 1 to 2 acres for grazing on a per month basis. You are capable of keeping 2 cows on one half acre but you would have to feed them hay or feed for most of the year. You would also have to regularly dispose of their waste. It wouldn't be very cost effective to raise two beef cows on one half acre, because you will be paying a lot of money to buy a lot of hay to feed those cows for, maybe, 360 days of the year (with only 5 days spent on that 1/2 acre pasture). If you want to raise a beef cow for you to butcher and eat, one should be plenty. But still one half acre would not be enough room for grazing. Unless you are in a rural area there may be a law against you having any large animals on such a small piece of land.

Cow apparently is derived from Old English cu which came from old German kwon which was derived from some protogermanic word Gwous, which is believed to be an onomatopoeic form of the noise a cow makes, commonly referred to today as lowing or a moo.
In order to clearly differentiate it from a bull, a bicycle, a schoolbus, or a blimp.

It depends on the size and how lean the cow or "cow" is. Assuming you are referring to an average market steer, which averages around 1250 lbs, the ideal percentage yield is less than 58%. If you get an average carcass weight of 700 lbs or more from that steer, and everyone eats an 8 oz. portion, it could feed an estimated 1400 people for certain.

cows poop when ohers do. once one cow poops all the others do too. i know caz i saw it on dirty jobs......you know now would be a good time for you to ask your health teacher or science teacher........they will love you if you asked these questions

A diet that is high in protein and carbohydrates is commonly used to fatten cattle. Grain, high-quality hay and/or grass, bakery by-products, and alfalfa cubes or pellets are just a few items that can be used to fatten cattle for slaughter.

You can start to place grain out for a calf after the first week of age, but they will only take a few mouth fulls each day for the first few weeks. Around 45 to 50 days old they should be actively eating grain.

You are able to eat the lining of the rumen and the reticulum, this is a delicacy common in France and is generally known as Tripe.

I heard they eat pretty much the same amount. But if you have a horse like my Silky, your horse would probably eat more than a cow. And then again my neighbors' horses hardly eat the grass in their pasture, they like to bask in the sun and play more than eat grass. In my option it depends on your horse or cow.

- Canada

- United States

- Mexico

- Brazil

- Uruguay

- South Africa

- Japan

- China

- Mongolia

- England

- Scotland

- Ireland

- France

- Luxemburg

- Turkey

- Afghanistan

- Saudi Arabia

- India

- Phillipines

- Algeria

And many many more. ALL countries in the world raise cattle; the only CONTINENT that does not have cattle is Antarctica.

It depends on your area, and what type of land you're putting them in. If it's a feedlot, you can have at least 10 per acre. If it's on pasture, it may range from 1 per acre to 0.1/acre (or 10 acres/cow).

if the mare isn't dead try to get it some milk from its mom b/c the first milk tht is in the mom's sack is thick and full of vitamins & antioxidents for the baby's immune system. but you probably can b/c i did w/ my goats, i just pop the baby bottle in the microwave to get it a LITTLE warm not 2 hot u dont want to burn the babys tounge!! (this is only if it comes out of the jug/ store)this is sorta like the milk coming from the mom WARM not hot!!....

but if the mare is dead heres an alternative:

if you go to a farm store (tractor's supply, co-op, faulders) there is powdered milk for just about any little animal you want it comes in like a 5-10 pound bag / a bucket, (i know b/c of my goats) & costs around 20-30 bucks.......

u can go with my opinion/answer but wht do i know im just a 15 year old teenage w/ a LOT OF 1ST HAND EXPERIENCE WITH THESE THINGS!!!!!!

:~)

Herefords eat like any normal cow, bovine, whatever eats. They typically eat 2% of their body weight, but how much to feed them depends on several factors. Check out the related question posted below for more info on the general feeding of cattle.

It depends on the cow, it could go from £50 - £5000 it really depends on it's condition and age. if your buying a thoroughbred, show cow it would cost a lot more than if someone is selling an old averagebred cow.

In North America, a cow, depending on its breed, condition, age, calf-at-side or dry and pregnant, or dry and ready for slaughter, could bring as much as $50/cwt or $500/cwt. Purebred cows definitely go for more than commercial cull cows.

As a little treat, sure, but not as a main staple of their diet. Cattle need to be on grass, and fed hay as their staple diet. Apples can cause a choking hazard of a bovine swallows them whole, and so can carrots, since cows typically don't chew before swallowing. If you cut the carrots and apples up in little pieces that your bovine can swallow without choking, then she'll be better off.

Most cattle in the north are fed hay, silage and/or grain during the winter. However, for parts of the world where winter means no snow, most cattle are still out on green pasture. In some colder parts where snow is but a dusting, cattle are stockpile grazing old, dried growth of the previous year.

Yes, it can be a feedstuff that can be fed to cattle. However, most grains that are fed to cattle are corn, barley, sorghum, and field peas. Wheat is mostly used for bread-making, not as a grain to feed livestock.

approximately 30 kg when it is fed average fodder of 40.

It's not advisable to grain a heifer that is ready to calve soon. The fetus at late gestation is focused on growing, so giving extra energy and protein to a springing heifer could encourage calving problems once the time comes for the heifer to give birth, no matter how thin the heifer is. You should leave off the grain until after the heifer has calved, and put her on a pound for the first few days then raise it up gradually over the coming two weeks until you're feeding her around 1% of her body weight as-fed per day. This is especially important if she's been on forage and hasn't had grain for a while, because you need to allow her rumen microflora time to adjust to the change in diet. If the 1% doesn't seem like it's doing much, then up it to 1.5% of her body weight. Usually feeding grain at 1 to 2% body weight is sufficient to get an animal on the road to gaining weight again.

harvesting the succulent plant residues from its sources chopping the residues to small pieces at maximum 2 inches

storing the pile into airtight containers for 21 days

opening the silos at the end of the fermentation time (after passing 21 days).

taking the silage to feed animals