Although the nutritional value of alfalfa is very good, it only has a high protein content, and its nutrition is not comprehensive. If you feed cattle and sheep for a long time, it will lead to incomplete nutrition. The feed for cattle and sheep should be comprehensive feed. Under normal circumstances, fresh alfalfa should not be fed to cattle and sheep too much, and it can only account for 40~50% of all cattle and sheep feed. Only in this way can these animals grow fat and fast, and can they be bred.
Soybean meal has been used to the greatest extent in poultry and pig breeding. Only when the unit protein cost of cottonseed meal and peanut meal is much lower than that of soybean meal will they be considered for use. In fact, soybean meal has become the benchmark for comparison with other sources in protein. Now fresh alfalfa can be used to feed cattle, and drying alfalfa and grinding it into powder is also a feeding method. However, it is not feasible to feed cattle directly with dry alfalfa. Generally, it needs to be humidified and mixed with concentrated feed.
Many domestic animal husbandry enterprises feed alfalfa, most of which are imported from abroad. The shortage of supply also leads to the very high price of alfalfa! A ton is as high as 2000 yuan, which is higher than the price of grain. The high price increases the cost of raising animals! In order to avoid such problems after cattle and sheep eat alfalfa, they can be mixed with other gramineous grasses when feeding, or fresh alfalfa can be left for about two hours before feeding. Eating fresh alfalfa in the grass season and eating dried alfalfa in the hay season are all fat and not easy to get sick.