Mountain people proactively prevent long-term cold for livestock and poultry

(Baonghean.vn) - Move buffalo and cow herds from the grazing area to captivity, prepare food, and cover barns to cope with the prolonged cold.

These are the measures that the people in the mountainous areas are actively implementing, including Nghia Dan locality.

Clean the barns and cover them carefully to protect the cattle from the cold. Photo: Minh Thai

As someone with more than 10 years of experience raising buffalo and cows, every winter, Ms. Nguyen Thi Hong's family in Tan Phong hamlet, Nghia Thang commune (Nghia Dan) urgently moves the buffalo and cows from the grazing area to raise at home.

"Currently, my family has 8 cows. To prevent diseases and hunger for livestock in winter, in addition to regular vaccinations, my family also proactively provides food sources such as sugarcane tops, straw, grass, cleans barns, and gives buffalo and cows warm water mixed with diluted salt so that the herd of buffalo and cows is still healthy, develops, and reproduces well" - Ms. Hong said.

Abundant food sources for cattle are stored by people for the cold season. Photo: Minh Thai

In Nghia Hung commune - one of the localities with a strong livestock and poultry raising movement in Nghia Dan, with a total herd of over 1,200 buffaloes, a herd of nearly 2,500 pigs, and a herd of over 35,000 chickens. Every year, during the cold season, the commune focuses on directing hamlets to implement hunger and cold prevention work for livestock and poultry.

Mr. Le Van Tien's family in Hamlet 13 - Nghia Hung Commune has 6 buffaloes and cows. Although they have a grazing area, the family still takes advantage of the vacant land around the house to grow elephant grass for the buffaloes and cows to eat. Through training courses organized by the district veterinary staff, his family has also applied livestock raising techniques in the cold winter days, the barns are very carefully covered.

Veterinary staff instruct people to mix warm water for buffalo and cows to drink. Photo: Minh Thai

Mr. Le Van Tien said: Recently, the local authorities have been regularly propagandizing that the cold weather will continue, so my family has proactively covered the barns and lined the floor with straw for the buffalo and cows. Proactively providing food sources, supplementing nutrients, ensuring that the buffalo and cows grow well and do not get sick during the long cold days.

Nghia Dan is an agricultural district, in which cattle raising accounts for a large number every year. Currently, the district has more than 6,000 cows, over 18,000 buffaloes, 25,000 pigs; 850,000 poultry. Therefore, to stabilize and develop livestock, from the beginning of the year, the District People's Committee directed the establishment of a Steering Committee for disease prevention for livestock and poultry.

Drying cassava as reserve feed for livestock during the cold season. Photo: Minh Thai

Mr. Phan Van Binh, Vice Chairman of Nghia Dan District People's Committee said: "To ensure prevention of hunger and cold for livestock and poultry, the District People's Committee has issued instructions and instructions for livestock farmers to proactively implement measures to prevent hunger, cold and diseases for livestock and poultry.

Specifically, the district has assigned officials to each commune to urge and guide livestock households to apply cold prevention measures for livestock and poultry. The communes have directed and announced daily cold prevention lessons on loudspeakers to villages and hamlets. In addition, the district People's Committee has advised livestock farmers to proactively prevent diseases, stock up on food and protect livestock and poultry from the cold...

Minh Thai