FEEDING SELECTED COWS IS AN IMPORTANT RESERVE FOR INCREASE BEEF PRODUCTION
This article discusses issues related to the feeding of adult cattle - culled cows. The growing demand for meat - beef - requires the maximum use of all reserves to increase its production. An important source of increasing beef production is the fattening and fattening of cattle. For 4-5 months of the grazing period, you can increase the weight of adult livestock by 26-30%, young animals by 60-70%. With an increase in the mass of animals, the yield of slaughter products increases. In some farms of the region, from 34 to 46% of cows are culled per year. In OOO Chernozemye, Rylsky District, 45% of the second calving cows dropped out during the year, in OOO Zashchitnoye of the Shchigrovsky District - 41.7% of the cows in the third calving. After the second lactation, 34% of the cows were culled at the Kurchatovskiy Beet-grower, OOO Kursk-Agro, Kurchatovskiy district. With a live weight of 400 kg and below the average body condition, the market value of a cow will be 43.2 thousand rubles. After fattening, the live weight will increase to 440 kg and more. Such an animal will have an average and above average body condition and the cost of a cow with an average body condition will increase by 8.8 thousand rubles, and if it is above average, by 11.8 thousand rubles. With the existing livestock of cows in agricultural enterprises of the region (32 thousand heads) and annual culling of them within 20%, due to the fattening of culled animals, it is possible to additionally obtain about 450 tons of beef in live weight. In this regard, an economic mechanism is needed that would stimulate the widespread organization of feeding selected and "one-time" cows.