If you are a cowboy country, a desire to raise livestock, but your home's fence is too small, then the mini-cow (small cow) may be right for you. Mini beef cattle than the average size is much smaller, more suitable for small farmers farming, you either relied milking, production of meat, also can play it as a pet possessor.
比尔布赖恩 the east coast of Maryland has a 50-acre farm last year he has sold seven years of mini-cows. Brian said: "Most of our mini-cattle are sold to those only three to five acres of small farmers, they will use the fence to an acre of land fenced off, buy a mini cow, to keep them as pets. "Brian said this when he was not far away from where it stood two mini cows, they meet in the fence to eat grass. If a visitor is close, they will quickly run away.
Now the emergence of a new American farmers, who rely on feeding cattle for a living mini, Brian is a member of them. This dwarf cattle only one-third of an ordinary cow physique. They told us that mini cattle breeding, for many reasons. First of all, people do not need to use 40 acres of ranch to keep them, four acres can. Secondly, the mini-cattle eat only one-third of normal adult cattle, and they rarely damage pastures and fences, it is easier to manage. Brian said: "I am already 56 years old, you think I can do? But I can manage these mini-cow."
Mini cattle breeders have said that although the cattle of their small size, but the meat production per acre is more than the other cattle raising. There are other mini-cattle raising benefits. Some people to save money, will consider a buy a whole cow, or semi-fan cattle. However, you want a 1200 or 1500 pounds of cow meat all stored together, is not an easy thing to do, under normal circumstances, you put 40% of the beef in cold storage has been good. However, the general weight of mini cattle 500-700 lbs between the flesh enough food for a family four to six months. Brian said that this is just frozen the longest shelf life of beef. And keeping only reasonable, mini beef cattle meat and no different from normal.
Brian runs a construction company, said his wife, Donna bear most of the farm work, she would come up every day about two hours to take care of cattle. Brian said: "Women, like men, these mini-cattle feeding." O'Brien said most of his mini-cows can spend their remaining years, since the buyer to buy this cow herd has been reared, even when they as pets.
As the number is still limited, mini-cattle prices higher than normal cows. Brian said he spent $ 1,600 to buy a mini-cow, with a $ 1,000 buy a mini-bull, but only in the ordinary cattle prices between 500-600 pounds. However, he said, because more and more mini-cattle, prices are a matter of time.
Richard h · Gerard Wall located in Covington, Washington, USA The well-being of mountain mini cattle breeding farm with several mini-cattle. He said the United States has formed six small mini-cattle market. Many people buy a mini cow, it is mainly as pets, while others relied on milk production, production of organic beef, but 60 to 70 percent of mini cattle are bought as pets.
Gerard Wall said that only those adult hip height less than 42 inches, the height of the body below the middle of the 48-inch mini beef cattle was only considered. He has been registered to date of 26 mini-cow. Such cattle are popular there is a factor that most people are not big enough common cattle breeding farms. Typically, two ordinary cattle need 5 acres of land, however, two mini cows only 1 acre. Gerard Wall said: "If you have five acres, they can keep 10 mini-cow."
10 mini cows can produce 6000 pounds of beef, however, the same amount of ordinary cattle would produce 3000 pounds of beef. He said: "This is true, because feeding these animals efficient, coupled with their hooves is very small, not destroy pastures, so not only to maintain grass growth environment, but also provided them with abundant food . "
Some breeders said, mini-cattle feeding on the grass more easily, which is a factor in their popularity, as reported to the natural grass-eating cattle meat rich in omega-3 fatty acids benefit the heart. However, you engage in the mini beef cattle is very difficult for two reasons, first, very few varieties of mini cattle, and second, most cattle are kept as pets, the owner could not bear to kill them.
American Charles Warren Felton, Delaware with six zebu - that Brahman hump Chang Mini, including the five cows and one bull. He said that they are the real mini-cattle, because they are natural growth, not by keeping the body intends to make them smaller. Warren said: "They are more like pets and I like them because they look very elegant, very strange, I have never eaten their flesh, nor sell their own mini-cow slaughter. My wife do not eat our own breeding farm any animals. " |