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Wanda vs green fodder: what is your daily feed cost per animal right now?

Waqas Anjum

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1 month ago · edited

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Wanda prices have moved enough in two years to change whether the whole thing is worth doing.

Your district, how many animals, what you feed daily, the cost per animal per day, and the milk you get for it. Comparing across districts is the only way anyone finds out they are being overcharged.

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Shahzad Iqbal

Posts: 6 · Joined: May 2026

1 month ago

#2

Rahim Yar Khan, 6 janwar. Wanda Rs 3,100 per 50kg bori. Per animal per din tqreeban Rs 580 wanda plus green. Doodh 9-10 litre.

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Rizwan Haider

Posts: 12 · Joined: May 2026

1 month ago

#3

Okara, 11 janwar. Poora hisaab likh deta hoon kyunke adhoora hisaab hi asal masla hai — log sirf wanda gin te hain aur samajhte hain feed sasti hai.

Roz per animal (doodh dene wali buffalo, ~10 litre):

  • Wanda: 4 kg @ Rs 62/kg = Rs 248
  • Green fodder (berseem/maize, apni zameen se): 25 kg — bazaar me Rs 5/kg = Rs 125
  • Toori: 4 kg = Rs 80
  • Khal/binola: 1 kg = Rs 95
  • Mineral mixture + namak = Rs 15
  • Kul: tqreeban Rs 563/din

Aur jo log ginte nahi:

  • Paani, bijli (tubewell), labour: per animal per din tqreeban Rs 90
  • Asal kul: ~Rs 650/din

10 litre doodh @ Rs 150 = Rs 1,500. To gross Rs 850 bacha, us me se vet, breeding, aur janwar ki apni qeemat ki depreciation nikaalni hai.

Green fodder ke bare me asal baat: apni zameen ho to green sab se sasta protein hai, koi muqabla nahi. Zameen na ho aur kharidna pare to Punjab me is waqt green kharid kar dairy chalana mushkil hai — us surat me wanda ratio barhana parta hai aur munafa girta hai.

Aik cheez jo maine seekhi: silage. Maize silage banane se maine June-July me feed cost tqreeban 20% kam kar li, jab green mehnga aur kam hota hai. Pehli baar banate hue kharab bhi hui thi, lekin ab teen saal se chal raha hai.

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Waqas Anjum

Posts: 7 · Joined: May 2026

1 month ago · in reply to #3

#4

Labour aur bijli ko ginna — yehi asal farq hai. Main bhi yeh nahi ginta tha. Ab gina to pata chala ke ek janwar jo main "faida de raha hai" samajh raha tha, woh barabar pe tha.

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Hassan Raza

Posts: 11 · Joined: May 2026

1 month ago

#5

Sargodha. Rs 610 per animal per din, 4 janwar. Silage ke bare me aur batayen — kitni jagah chahiye aur shuru me kitna kharcha aata hai?

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Rizwan Haider

Posts: 12 · Joined: May 2026

1 month ago · in reply to #5

#6

Pit tareeqe se shuru karo, bags baad me. 10 x 6 x 5 foot ka pit chaar janwaron ke liye do mahine chal jata hai. Kharcha sirf plastic sheet aur mazdoori — Rs 8,000–10,000 pehli baar. Ahem baat: maize ko sahi waqt pe kaato (dana doodhiya halat me), achhi tarah dabao taake hawa na rahe, aur 21 din tak bilkul mat kholo.

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Naveed Anwar

Posts: 8 · Joined: May 2026

2 weeks ago

#7

Quetta ke aas paas green fodder saal me sirf chand mahine milta hai, isliye yahan wanda pe hi guzara hai. Per animal Rs 720 tak jata hai. Punjab wale khush qismat hain aur unhe pata nahi.

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Shahzad Iqbal

Posts: 6 · Joined: May 2026

1 week ago · in reply to #6

#8

Silage wala tareeqa is saal try kiya. Pehla pit thora kharab hua kyunke hawa reh gayi thi, doosra bilkul theek. Ab June ke liye stock hai, pehli baar.

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