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The four major misconceptions you need to avoid when choosing a feed to buy

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Jun 27,2023

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Feed is a source of nutrition for animals, and the good or bad feed also directly affects the efficiency of raising animals. But some farmers in the use of feed there are many misunderstandings. The following Dr. King editorial introduction to animal feed in the purchase of matters needing attention:

Animals eat and sleep can not indicate that the feed is good

Animals have certain living habits, especially small animals under 40 kilograms, have a certain amount of time to play before and after noon every day. Animals that eat and sleep are drowsy due to the addition of sedatives (sleeping pills) to the feed, and the animals eat the sedatives to destroy their normal physiological functions. And sedatives on the animal's muscles will play a role in lowering blood pressure, lowering body temperature, heartbeat acceleration, affecting its normal metabolism. For this reason, there have long been regulations on the feed industry, prohibiting the addition of these drugs.

The color of the feces can not prove the quality of feed

To assess the quality of feed, to see the feed conversion rate is high or low. Some farmers believe that the black feces of animals proves that the feed consumed is good, and the yellow feces proves that the feed consumed is bad. Individual feed manufacturers in order to cater to the psychology of farmers, in the feed added to some of the animal growth and development does not play a role in the material, such as sodium humate, blood meal and 160 ppm (million parts per million of the concentration) above the copper, not only to improve the cost of feed, increasing the burden of animal households, but also no obvious role in promoting production.

Animal tail biting is not caused by inadequate feed nutrients.

Animals that do not have access to long-term nutrients, such as salt, protein or certain vitamins and trace elements, there will be xenophagy. At present, the causes of tail biting are said to be different, such as the density of the animal group, injection, environmental conditions, light intensity and lack of certain nutrients.

According to on-site observation, tail biting animals mostly weighing 10-40 kilograms, about 20 kilograms of body weight of the animals biting the tail is particularly serious, lactating piglets or more than 40 kilograms of body weight of the animals less often occur. Animals around 20 kilograms is the period of fighting, animals began to bite the tail is to play, when the bite through the blood became the hobby of the same column of animals, most of the animals on the tail bleeding animals out of curiosity, went to lick and suck or arch bites, which is caused by one of the important reasons for animal biting the tail.