Use the ingredients which you can store and feed correctly

It is interesting to watch buying habits in the marts at present.

Use the ingredients which you can store and feed correctly

The quality lots are still making good money. These animals are in general better converters of feed into saleable meat.

Feed conversion efficiency is a similar measure to that of miles per gallon in your car. In cattle, the measure is: how many kgs of dry matter must an animal consume in order to gain 1kg of live weight? The less feed required, the cheaper the gain.

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