Livestock in the drought: quality of the supplement mix can define herd performance; understand

The efficiency of livestock during the dry season directly depends on the quality of the supplement mixture offered to the animals in deferred grazing. In another episode of the series “In the dry season the pasture can dry up, but the cattle cannot,” on Giro do Boi, the zootechnician Iorrano Cidrini, a specialist in nutrition, warns that the correct formulation and homogeneity of the mixture are crucial for the animal to be able to process the fiber of the pasture, which loses protein and quality during the dry season. Check it out: According to Cidrini, the main objective of supplementation during the dry season is to correct the low crude protein content of the deferred pasture. This protein is the essential “fuel” for the bacteria in the rumen, which degrade low-quality fiber and ensure the highest consumption of forage by the animal, resulting in superior performance. The protein composition of the supplement is crucial. The animal in the dry season requires both True Protein ...