Protecting livestock on cold days

For nearly a month now, the temperature in Thai Nguyen has been generally between 11 and 13 degrees Celsius, especially at night and early morning. To ensure the safety of 95,000 buffaloes and cows, over 600,000 pigs and 17 million poultry during the cold days, the Provincial People's Committee has directed all levels and functional agencies to join hands to ensure that possible damage to the people is minimized.

People in Ban Ten hamlet (Van Lang commune, Dong Hy) proactively stock up on food for buffaloes during cold days.

Dinh Hoa is a locality that always has a lower temperature than the average of the province. Therefore, right from the beginning of this winter, the district has organized training courses, instructing people on livestock raising techniques and measures to prevent hunger and cold for livestock.

According to Mr. Nguyen Minh Tu, Chairman of the People's Committee of Dinh Hoa district: The locality directed the specialized department to monitor weather forecasts, recommending not to let livestock roam freely on days when the temperature is below 12 degrees Celsius; instructing people to enclose barns with available materials such as tarpaulin, bamboo fences, sacks, etc. to avoid wind and rain, making the barn floor wet and muddy.

Similar to Dinh Hoa, implementing the direction of the Provincial People's Committee, localities have currently deployed synchronous measures to prevent and combat hunger, cold, and diseases for livestock and aquatic products.

Mr. Vu Duc Hao, Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, said: Prolonged cold weather affects the resistance and growth of livestock. Therefore, along with propaganda and guidance on covering barns, district-level functional departments also recommend people to prevent epidemics; take advantage of straw, elephant grass, and grass in the fields as a source of reserve food. In particular, using agricultural products such as potatoes, cassava, and silage corn to increase the food source for buffaloes and cows. On days of severe cold, supplement with concentrated feed and diluted salt water to increase the resistance of livestock...

Not being subjective in protecting livestock during cold days is the guiding viewpoint of the Provincial People's Committee. To carry out this task well, the province requires the agricultural sector to organize working groups to go to the grassroots, especially the highland communes to directly propagate, guide and inspect the work of preventing and fighting cold for crops and livestock. Households raising livestock in the forest must move their livestock to pens or sheltered places with adequate conditions for the livestock to avoid the cold.

According to Mr. Nguyen Thanh Binh, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Thai Nguyen has directed relevant levels and sectors to proactively arrange local budgets and local resources to promptly serve the work of preventing and fighting hunger, cold, and epidemics for livestock, aquatic products, and crops; promptly support materials and funds for poor households, ethnic minority households, and policy families to reinforce and cover barns, seedling ponds, seedling gardens, and buy concentrated feed for grass-eating livestock, etc.

In addition to the efforts of all levels and functional sectors, people also need to be proactive and active in preventing and combating cold weather and protecting livestock. In particular, the necessary condition is that households must regularly monitor weather forecasts to promptly grasp the situation of severe cold. Comply with the recommendations and technical solutions of functional agencies, and have a specific plan to effectively prevent and combat severe cold weather for livestock.

According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, from now until the Lunar New Year 2025, the current weather pattern will continue, and there may even be many cold spells in the northern mountainous provinces, including Thai Nguyen. Therefore, the prevention and control of cold for livestock needs to be carried out regularly by authorities and people, without being negligent, to minimize damage to agricultural production.

Source: https://baothainguyen.vn/kinh-te/202412/bao-ve-dan-vat-nuoi-ngay-gia-ret-c9d2cac/