Cattle Pen Fattening IF Ep 3

my name is dr jacob gusher i am an animal scientist by profession we are here at mysticism as the same way farm operating is my yoga [Music] so we are here to discuss beef production one of the most important option which is pain fattening so we want to try and look at pain fattening what it is and how it is supposed to be done [Music] we want to try and make sure that we encourage every farmer around zimbabwe to look at paint fitting as a very important production option it doesn't need a lot of land what you only need is to be able to raise enough capital to buy animals at different age groups take them through the process of pain fattening which may take up to three months or less what is benefiting pain fattening is about polishing up your animal in order to fetch the best grades on the market so it's about uh emission i would call kuquenan joey so before marketing your animal you need to make sure that your animal is in the right shape in the right form producing the best quality piece that can actually attract every customer so that's what we call pain fattening so pain fattening it's after it's actually putting more energy in energy diet that improves three important aspects one the grade that the animal is going to fetch on the market two it gives an animal and extra cages that enables you to fetch with good profits in terms of the the amount of cages that you are going to get out of that animal thirdly you can also be able to make sure that your animal is going to to produce the best quality beef with adequate fat on it with adequate uh kaka suit so it's about trying to make sure that you polish your animal to to be able to be attractive and fetch the best grade on the market [Music] uh in terms of beef production when farmers sell their animals they are going to be graded into five uh beef grades that is being super choice commercial economy and manufacturing so you'd find out that as your animals becomes older they are now getting into the lower grades of beef quality if you would want to make money one is to make sure that you market your animals before they reach uh more than three and a half years old the moment they get to four years old you are already being substituted from getting the best quality beef which is the super and choice your animals now remain in in commercial and the other lower grades there are a number of factors that determines your profitability in pain fattening the first one being the age and the size of animal so in the edge in size we mean you need to make sure that you get an animal that is between one and a half to about three and a half years old those animals could actually be able to they they respond well to um high energy diet they they tend to adapt to pain fattening then you also make sure that when you are getting your animals they need to be in the range for example steers they should be within the range of around 260 to 360 kgs which means an average of 300 kgs should be a good steer to put for pain fattening then you also need to make sure that if there are efforts slightly on the lower side uh 330 230 to about 300 kgs it also gives us a good um an animal for fattening though some policies they tend to restrict are pain fattening of heifers because they are meant for breeding the second important factor is the breed you need to make sure that you get the best breed that adapt to pain pain sometimes if you get a merchandise it may not be able to do well in benefiting it may fail to adapt so you have to make sure that if you are going to use a pen fit anywhere you are going to be using a high energy diet you need the british breeds the coordinator bridge uh some of them we call them the post tower as breeds uh those huge ones the shallow ways the limousine uh the beef master the angers those they do well but if you are going to uh get our zeb bridge the the brahmin yes they do well but you need to make sure that you adapt them well to high concentrate dyes which are high in energy if you don't do that you may not be able you are likely to get a lot of what you call metabolic diseases acidosis illuminatis and laminitis those are the challenges that you may end up actually facing if you don't get the best breed or if you don't get a bleed that adapts to pain fattening yeah let let's talk about uh feedlot management you would find out that before you start actually uh putting your animal there i have mentioned the three important factors that uh helps you to choose the animals which is this edge the sex as well as the breed of the the animal that you want to paint patent but there are principles that you need to make sure that you are there to which are very important in feedlot management one you need to make sure that the animals that you want to to fit in or to to put in a feedlot first of all you need to give them a supplement before that probably one and a half kgs or so to just try and adapt them so that before they go to the benefiting uh into the feedlot they are at least adapted secondly you also need to make sure that you dwam them trying to make sure that you you destroy or you you you you eliminate round waves leave up looks all other internal parasites they are eliminated then you move forward you can actually also introduce you inject them with vitamins multivitamin or vitamin a to try and make sure that you improve digestibility and absorption of nutrients you know the importance of that to determine in terms of membranes uh of the the the uh the epithelial wall of the gastrointestinal tract so you'd find out that's the the third thing that you need to do then you need your animals to be adapted to a high energy diet the high energy diet is made up of 70 percent grain uh 20 20 roughage and 10 percent protein source so if you are going to make your your pain fattening diet you need you have to make sure that you use more grain there's your mains which is which are which which accounts for 70 percent then 10 percent could be your your your meal or other are protein sources then your refugees comes in are covering the other 20 to make it hundred percent once you have got that diet you need to make sure that you adapt your animals how do you adapt them you have to offer them little quantity small quantities actually increasing so for example you start by giving your animals 25 percent of what is supposed to be eating most of our animals they take it at maximum they would need around 10 kgs of that feed diet fattening diet per day so before you start giving them 10 kgs you have your animal that have been feeding on eye grasses and it's it's women is made up of roughage digesting bacteria which requires a ph which is above 6.5 if you just change without gradual changing you tend to increase acidic levels in the acidic condition in the women which then kills those rapids digesting but in doing so you are going to cause those metabolic diseases that i once alluded to so in order to avoid to reduce those are digestive in other absence you have to make sure that you start you're giving your animals probably 25 percent of what they require per day so 25 percent of 10 kgs it could be three and a half kgs for the first three days then you move on probably to four kgs five kgs for the next um four days that is probably up to day nine from day nine you are now giving your animals probably seven to eight kgs from day fourteen you now giving your animals the full region which is about 10 kgs or you feed them at libertum to to to finish so that way you are likely to reduce those challenges that normal emanates from digestive and other stomach upsets [Music] so the absence that i once talked about which we call metabolic challenges or metabolic diseases i said these rumino uh humane status which you can also uh control by making sure that you give your animal 750 meals or 50 to 50 50 of vinegar in molasses then if the animal develops as doses then you can also give them a hundred grams of milk of manganese and 50 grams of sodium biocarbonate then if the animal develops laminitis then you have to make sure that you increase your garbage diet probably to 30 35 percent so that's trying to make sure that you control those challenges then i'll try to elaborate what we call acidosis acidosis develop when you give a highly feminable energy diet which quickly ferments to produce a lot of volatile fat acids which tends to affect the human ph and by affecting the human ph you are actually destroying the microbes that are important of the microflora that is important for degradation in the woman so it's like if you do that you are like someone we have actually destroyed the cables of our electricity uh for once grinding meal so it means if someone takes the bucket of maize to the grinding meal you cannot actually come back with your meal meal because obviously grinding machine will be down so if you put a lot of high energy diet it actually completely destroys the the microbes that are important for digestion and if that happens definitely the animal will have the problem of women women stasis so that's how it emanates that's how the ph also increases in the women and are causing acidosis then that's how also the animal end up behaving to suffer from laminitis so you have to make sure that you introduce the feed gradually like what we did with these animals in terms of feed you need to make sure that you you provide a diet that to supply the nutrients that you require that are required for maximizing growth and weight gain so you would find out that there are so many types of feed that are manufactured by different uh reputable companies that we have in zimbabwe so in terms of that definitely you'll find a lot of feed fees that are available but for farmers they can actually fit in their animals using different methods one you can actually be able to harvest your maize who are growing their own mace with corpse just we call a snip cone if you have got your snapcorn you can buy your cotton seed cake then you mix with the meat with a bit of mineral and vitamin premix molasses and you can have that becomes a pain-fitting meal for that we can actually uh we can always discuss in the event that one wants to use to go that route secondly you can also i have your mains and you buy your mavic okay especially from windy meal then you you mix with your your diet with your mess and add a bit of molasses to reduce your mass the quantity of maize depending on the price that you are getting your molasses if your molasses is cheaper more you can reduce the amount of maize by increasing molasses up to about 25 to 30 percent depending on which ingredient is cheaper thirdly you can also make your your feed using um forage legumes and your high image which it could be mace which could be so gum which if you are using so gum definitely the value of sorghum tends to be 89 of maize so it means you can temper around with your calculations and then be able to use them but we are saying you're so gum your meal your brands that are coming from for for mace all those things they can actually be used in the production of your benefiting meal but what you need is paint fitting is all about producing a high energy diet with about 13 percent good protein content in it then you offer your animals you can actually be able also to produce cheaper foods that you can manufacture at the farm or mix at the farm to fatten or to prime up your other animals that are not going to be fit for pain fattening like your steers and the the cows if you are calling your cows and you are calling you also able to steal your accents that are old enough more than four years old then they may not be able to adapt well and also to give you uh your good returns if you paint fitting them but you can pen fitting them with a cheaper fit which you can make with like a portrait mixing pot glitter your maze your saw gum and your molasses then you come up with a diet that enables that is cheaper in terms of a price compared to the manufactured feeds that are of high quality so you'd find out that your output or the price that you get uh the profitability that you get is determined by your the price of mace so if you are producing your maze it won't farm then definitely you make more money by pain fattening so you can actually do that a year and penetrating allows you to make sure that you you can actually pick the best time of the year when you know that the prices of meat are likely to be that high and you actually target those areas when you can actually fit in your animal and then fetch the best price when beef is not likely to be in short supply so you find out that it's actually an art in the science to try and look at where do you want to fit in and where can you actually join in and do your pain fattening and provide there are other methods that you can also use in pain fatiguing one you can fit in your animal from the veil from the wrench length in the wrench length you can allow your animals to graze and offer them about three kgs of the high energy diet and for 100 days and that will improve the quality and the amount of meat that you can get as well as the the grains that you are likely to get you can also try to make sure that you supplement your animals summer fattening uh through grasses in the grange land in the industry providing a high quality forages that are easily digestible or degradable to provide the nutrient that you want and your animals can gain weight and be able to fetch better prices on the market so those are some of the ads that you can actually be able to to apply at farm level and make money out of our keto business so if you want to fight poverty one can actually be able to buy steers buy cow cows fatten them using poor low quality diet which you know for sure that they are going to improve the quality as well as the meat output secondly we have got products from delta such as strength grain which we call masses if you have got a masses you can also mix them with some other protein sources and use them to fit in your animals and you can actually get value for your money because for example a ton of masses can be bought at around 17 18 and if you are going to mix with other food sources that you have own farm with the help of nutritionist we can then be able to come up with a diet which you can use anywhere anyhow and be able to make money out of keto business so it's a business for the elderly for the youth for everyone for women men so it's it's actually up to us to make money so cookie [Music] there are a number of mistakes that are made by farmers in pain fattening so the first one is in terms of choosing the right breed the correct age and the guide sex you know you want to make sure that you've got an animal that responds to the diet that you are giving them for example the animals that we have here they responded within three months within our current year three months are owed in the pain in the feedlot they are about two and a half months but when they were two months old they were already in a prime condition that could have allowed us to sell them off it means we chose animals that had a high feed conversion ratio so you would find out that if you have got an animal that quickly converts the nutrients that you are giving it to meat then you can get an animal that can give you a kg and a half of meat per day or weight per day if you are giving them the 10 gauges or feet or 9 8 kgs of it per day within the 90 days you can have an animal that gains around 130 kgs life weight mass so if they get that much if you are going to slaughter them and give you that much increase in terms of their body weight then definitely you then have maximize your profit but if you choose an animal that is too old that is not going to respond to nutrients then you are going to feed it and you end up with an animal that is going to consume a lot of feed but without giving you the profit that you are actually looking for when you venture into pain fattening so that's the most important thing choose the right breed choose the correct sex could cruise the the right edge to old animals they are difficult to change so you want an animal that converts feed into meat that's what you need to have the second common mistake that is made by farmers when they are pain fattening is failure to give an animal adequate time to adapt there are a lot of biochemical and physical changes that happens in an animal when you give it a new diet that it is never eaten just like if you go to a restaurant or eat into a hotel and eat a lot of spices that you have never eaten you're likely to have a running stomach so your animals if they are not adapted they tend to have a big challenge in terms of responding you end up using a lot of drugs a lot of you end up actually requiring a vet doctor to come and be able to assist you uh to administer some of those mitigation measures that we we that we once discussed in our adaptation phase failure to adapt would then give give us a lot of challenges that we call our digestive and other abscess that end up causing women stasis acidosis laminitis those are the challenges that we end up having so you find out that you need to make sure that you acclimatize your animal give them a feed that enables them to adapt don't give them a lot of feed at once because once you do that definitely they will have a stomach upset those are some of the most important things that you need to adhere to the third common mistake that is normally made by farmers is giving too much space to animals you know when animals are in and benefiting in pain they need to be given less less space to roam around and do a lot of other activities that end up utilizing the energy that we want to be deposited in the muscle because we want the energy to prime the animal the animal to gain weight but instead they will end up doing a lot of activities that becomes an expense to the farmer so it then means you are going to use more feed because more feed is going to be utilized by the animal but less is going to be deposited on its board because the rest is going to be utilized through the other activities that the animal is going to be involved in so make sure that your pain is small you don't give a lot of room to roam around water is available always always available around 50 liters per animal per day so make sure that water is always available the food is always available don't give a lot of unnecessary refugees because some they tend them to favor those refugees and eat a lot of refugees that's actually compromising the rate of gain because the refuge takes more time in the women to digest so if they take more time it means less nutrients being made available for for bodybuilding for increasing live weight gain on the animal so make sure that your pain is small the animals they don't have a lot of space to run around to warm around fighting you need to avoid those things so animals that are shy feeders feed them separately animals that are fighting you need to make sure that you also separate them so that they don't spend a lot of energy on unproductive activities because the more feed that the animals consume and the less weight that they gain it means you are losing in terms of money so allow the animal to have a very small space uh then they eat and sleep then they put a lot of weight on their body the fourth common mistake that is normally also done by farmers is um failure to identify a lucrative market you know marketing is an art in the science as well get to know uh people that normally buy properly or even try to get involved in the value chain [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Mon Jan 17 2022