What Equipment Do You Need to Raise Cattle?
Whether you’re exporting large quantities of dairy products or simply selling at the local market, raising dairy cattle can be surprisingly lucrative. However, if you’re considering investing in a cattle operation, do your research first. As a hobby farmer or an owner of a larger agricultural business, it’s your responsibility to ensure your animals have a high quality of life.
Investing in the proper livestock equipment, ventilation, and cow comfort products demonstrates respect for these creatures and ensures compliance with any applicable animal welfare laws. Plus, healthy animals yield high-quality produce. When you take care of your cattle, everyone wins!
KBS Companies, a Rochester and Plainview livestock equipment company, is here to help you raise your cattle right.
Here are the livestock supplies you need to ensure your cows stay healthy and comfortable!
Cattle Keeping Goes Beyond the Obvious
Of course, it’s common sense that your cows will need food, water, and fencing, but these animals require more than the basic essentials to thrive and maximize production truly. While in many respects, cattle aren’t fussy, your operation will need to have the following livestock equipment to cater to them:
High-Quality Gates
Ask any farmer about their cows getting out, and they’ll tell you how much of a nightmare it is to collect them. At KBS Companies, we stock some of the hardiest gates around.
High-quality gates are built to withstand natural elements like prolonged wind and rain and accidental bumps and scrapes.
Cattle Oilers
This strange-sounding piece of livestock equipment helps to distribute topical insect repellants through your animal’s coat. As the cow rubs itself on the cattle oiler, your chosen product is spread across its skin, thus providing near maintenance-free pest control.
Hoof-Trimming Chutes
Cattle need their feet trimmed periodically, lest they overgrow and cause the animal pain. A hoof-trimming chute helps get this task done safely and efficiently by gently restraining the animal so that you are free to work.
Lameness (when a cow’s feet are sore) impacts the animal’s quality of life and milk production, so it’s crucial to prioritize hoof care.
Cow Brushes
A cow brush is a mechanical brush that is used for giving cattle relief from itches, parasites, dead skin, and dirt. The cows are able to groom themselves where they can’t typically reach.
Cow brushes are an important part of keeping your cows happy and clean.
KBS Vendors for Cattle Supplies
KBS partners with the best companies to bring you the best equipment for raising cattle. Through various partnerships, we can bring you the perks of these companies with the service of a family-owned company.
Some of our vendors include Albers, J&D Manufacturing, and Ritchie.
Albers Animal Feed
Albers is known for their human food, but they can also provide you with livestock feed. With Albers feed, you’ll receive the best nutrition for your cattle.
KBS Companies is happy to partner with Albers to bring you the best farm supplies and ag systems, and we trust Albers.
J&D Manufacturing
J&D Manufacturing understands that farming is an essential part of human existence. They know the importance of incorporating technology into keeping livestock healthy.
That’s why KBS partnered with J&D Manufacturing. We want to ensure your farm has the best feed, fans, and equipment to keep everything running smoothly.
Ritchie
Cattle need water, and that’s why Ritchie is one of KBS’s partners. Thomas Ritchie developed the concept of automatic waterer values in 1921. This innovation helped Ritchie build a business around ensuring your livestock stay hydrated.
Automatic waterers are Ritchie’s specialty, so you know they will be the best on the market.
Contact KBS Companies for Livestock Equipment
Our versatile, multi-purpose company provides livestock equipment and farm supplies, and we’d be happy to assist you in your cattle-raising adventure.
Call our Rochester location now at 507-287-3264 or our Plainview office at 507-534-3855.