Calf Fattening Farms

Dear Dr,

Good article about Calves Fattening Farm. There are seperate strategies for veal calf production and fattening for beef production. If you are intending for veal calf you have to take care from day1 itself. If you are for beef production also you have to have the care from day1 and further from 3rd month. Choosing of body weight depends on the breed you are selecting.

Dear all: 

As conultant and expert, I think that to select animals for fattening you should have two things in mind:

1- what are your market targets/demands? Market needs fatty animals or lean meat animals
2- What breeds you have got to work?

The 1st point is self-explanatory. If you are going to export towards East (Korea ets), you will need fatty animal (with fat) as market needs animals with fat for marbling (intra muscular and inter muscular fat). So the feeding plan and selection of animals will become different. But when your market is western countries then you will go for lean meat animals and with different managemental strategies.

2- The weight and age of animals largely depends on breeds of animals like early maturing breeds and late maturing breeds. The selection criteria for the both breeds will be different.
The break even point will depend on your feeding cost, growth rate and economic point of influx.

It is an huge topic and needs lot of information that are difficult to share on net.

Syed Hassan Raza

1) Selection of Meat Breed & particular individual animal.
2) Stress free environment play pivotal role
3) Least cost balanced feed formulation (More then 70 % of the total cost of production )
4) Age should be more then 6 months and not more then 1 year (Yes)
5) Body wt at 100kg may give better weight gain(Yes)
6) In Present circumstances we can hardly get 800 gm daily wt gain which is quite less
7) Vaccination & De worming have Vital impact on the wt gain
8) Farming is not only profession, it is passion
9) Effective & efficient market
10) Quality conscious end consumers hunting

• Suppose we select 100 kg animal of more than 6 months @ Rs 250/ kg which will cost 25000
• Duration of fattening is 4 months
• Cost of production is suppose 5000 /month (4x 5000=20000)
• Now total animal vale is (25000+20000=45000)
• Fatten total B.wt will be ( 100+96=196)
• Now animal value will be 49000
• Net incremental value is (49000-45000)=4000 per animal or Rs 1000 per month per animal
IMPORTANT ALL OTHER FACTORS REMAIN IN FAVOR & CONSTANT