Advantages of choosing a fence system for animal husbandry

In animal husbandry production, the fence system, as a basic and key facility, is increasingly highlighting its irreplaceable importance. Reasonable selection and use of the fence system can bring many significant advantages to the development of animal husbandry, from improving production efficiency to promoting animal health, from optimizing resource utilization to maintaining ecological balance, and promoting the modernization and sustainable development of animal husbandry in all aspects. ​

Improving production management efficiency​

The fence system has brought great convenience to the production management of animal husbandry and significantly improved work efficiency. In the traditional open breeding model, the range of livestock activities is not limited, and the breeders need to spend a lot of time and energy in grazing, driving, counting and other work links, and the work is difficult. The fence system clearly defines the activity area of ​​livestock, making grazing management orderly. For example, at a fixed grazing time every day, breeders can easily guide livestock to the designated pasture area in the fence, avoiding the trouble of looking for livestock everywhere; when collecting grazing, they can also quickly drive livestock back to a specific pen fence. For example, in some large-scale cattle and sheep farms, with the help of the fence system, a breeder can easily manage several times more livestock than before, and the labor cost can be greatly reduced, while the work efficiency is increased several times. ​

Ensuring the health and safety of livestock​

The fence system plays a key role in ensuring the health and safety of livestock. First, it builds a relatively safe, stable and protected living space for livestock, effectively blocking the intrusion of wild animals and stray animals from the outside, and reducing the risk of livestock being attacked and infected with foreign diseases. For example, in some grassland pastoral areas, fences can prevent wild animals such as wild wolves from harming the flock and reduce livestock casualties. Secondly, by rationally planning the space in the fence, such as setting up different functional areas such as rest areas, feeding areas, and drinking water areas, livestock can be encouraged to develop good living habits, ensure adequate rest and a reasonable diet, and thus improve the physical fitness and disease resistance of livestock. In addition, when livestock are sick or injured, the fence makes it easy for breeders to find them in time and isolate them in a specific treatment area to avoid the rapid spread of the disease in the herd, which is conducive to targeted treatment and care of sick livestock.​

Promote scientific breeding and precision feeding​

Scientific breeding methods are inseparable from precise management, and the fence system provides strong support for achieving this goal. In the fence breeding mode, breeders can group livestock in different fence areas according to factors such as breed, age, weight, growth stage, etc., and formulate personalized feeding plans for the nutritional needs of each group of livestock to achieve precise feeding. For example, for young livestock, nutritious and easy-to-digest feed can be provided in the fence where they are located; for livestock in the fattening period, the feed formula and feeding amount can be accurately adjusted according to their growth rate and meat quality requirements. This precise feeding method can not only improve the utilization rate of feed, reduce feed waste, and reduce breeding costs, but also ensure that each livestock can obtain appropriate nutrition supply, promote its healthy growth, and improve the quality of livestock and breeding benefits. ​

Realize the rational use of grassland resources​

In animal husbandry production dominated by grazing, grassland resources are the core means of production. The fence system can help achieve the rational use and sustainable development of grassland resources. By setting up fences, large areas of grassland can be divided into multiple rotational grazing areas. Breeders can regularly transfer livestock from one area to another for grazing according to a scientific rotational grazing plan. The benefits of doing so are multifaceted: on the one hand, it allows the grazed grassland to have sufficient time to recuperate and restore vegetation growth, avoid grassland degradation and desertification due to overgrazing, and maintain the balance and stability of the grassland ecosystem; on the other hand, reasonable rotational grazing can increase the grass yield and quality of the grassland, because grass at different growth stages has different nutritional values ​​for livestock. Rotational grazing can ensure that livestock always eat fresh, nutritious grass, improving the quality of livestock feeding and growth performance. For example, in some grassland areas, after the implementation of fence rotational grazing, the grassland vegetation coverage rate has increased significantly, the grass yield has increased by [X]%, and the growth rate of livestock has accelerated, and the breeding efficiency has been significantly improved. ​