Cattle Feeding Habits of Cattle Enterprises in Narman County of Erzurum Province

Erzurum İli Narman İlçesi Sığır Yetiştiricilerinin Sığır Besleme Tercihleri

Abstract

This study was carried out in order to reveal cattle nutrition and feeding habits of cattle enterprisesin Narman country of Erzurum province. For this purpose, some data were obtained by conducting face to facesurvey study with 208 producers in Narman and it’s villages. According to the findings obtained in the survey,it was determined that 80.8% of the enterprises produced forage crops. In these enterprises, alfalfa (61.5%) andbarley (60.1%) were mainly planted, but production of corn silage which is a major roughage feed was at low level(%7.7). Pasture utilization ratio was 96.2% and cattle herds generally moved into the pasture in May (47.5%) orJune (37%). Time interval that herds are grazed in pasture as determined as 3 months (31%) or 4 months (68%). Itwas also found out that 41% of the cattle breeder had a chance to move to the upland, they mostly went there in Mayor June and stayed in the upland for 4 months (43%). While wheat and barley straws (27%) take the first order asroughage in the enterprises, they were followed by alfaalfa hay (21%) and grass hay (16%). Silage (7%) was used ata low level. In enterprises crushed barley (34%), feed for fattening (23%) and feed for milk production (22%) weremostly used as concentrated feed. Excessive pasture usage in the country makes it necessary to improve the qualityof pasture and to increase the production of forage crops, especially corn silage. Also concentration of agriculturalextension services in rural areas will be beneficial for ranchers.

Özet

Bu araştırma, sığır yetiştiricilerinin sığır besleme ve yemleme alışkanlıklarını ortaya koymak amacıyla