What is the difference between raising cattle in free range and in captivity?

Free-range, or natural grazing. Characteristics are: First, growth and development are slower and cattle are thinner. Secondly, there is no need to have much feeding management. Labor costs, feed costs are reduced. And it is less or not easy to prevent and control epidemics, and once an epidemic occurs, it is difficult to control.

Captive breeding, housed feeding, that is, no grazing, bolting. Characterized by: fast growth and development of cattle. As a result of the reduction of wandering foraging activities, the proportion of forage converted into beef increased, the unit grass volume can produce more beef, feeding cycle can be shortened by half the time, fast turnover, high efficiency. Secondly, the accumulation of fertilizer. The average annual accumulation of fertilizer for a cow is 500kg, and 1000kg in captivity. at the same time, this can promote the recovery of vegetation, solve the contradiction between forest and animal husbandry, and is conducive to the commercialization of forage industry, and drive the production of herbivorous animals to the intensive, large-scale development.

Advantages of captive cattle:

Can reasonably utilize the forage resources including crop residues and limited land resources, most of the fields that should not be grazed, orchard grass can be harvested for cattle. You can plant grass in the field, forest set grass, grass to raise sheep. At the same time cow dung fertilizer fields, help the development of ecological agriculture, organic agriculture.

Beneficial to the large accumulation of farmyard manure, cow dung and urine is nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and other elements of the high content of composite organic fertilizers, is conducive to improving the soil, improve yields and reduce the cost, especially the effect of cold dipping field is obvious.

It can make full use of idle labor resources to achieve the purpose of raising cattle in every household." Go out with a sickle, come back to a bundle of grass", not only solves the contradiction of relying on the mountain to raise cattle, but also lays the foundation for the development of large-scale cattle raising. Solve the idle labor employment outlets, rapidly increase farmers' income is of practical significance.

Can alleviate the cattle by seasonal pasture constraints, lack of pasture resources, damage to pasture vegetation and other contradictions. At the same time, it also solves the bad cycle of raising cattle summer fat, autumn strong, winter thin, spring dead, and develops the cattle industry.

Facilitate scientific treatment of manure, improve the human environment, human and animal separation, reduce human and animal **** suffering from disease. Rooting out surface pollution of the ecological environment, effectively preventing the pollution of land and water in pastoral areas.