Farming in Azerbaijan: feeds, breeds and pastures

Azerbaijani farms move stock between summer and winter pastures and store hay for the cold months, buying and selling in manat. HerdMobile covers the vitamin and mineral sources sold there and puts your own hay, barley and pasture into the same ration. Check your breed, calculate the daily kilos and see the cost per head.

Ganja, Azerbaijan: Everyday livestock farming in the region. — Everyday livestock farming in the region. Animals in their everyday farm environment.

Edited by Ender Soyuince · About our content

2026-10-29

Compiled from open-access scientific sources.

Feeds recorded for this market

Feeds HerdMobile lists for AZ, with the job each one does.
Feed	Job on the farm
Copper sulfate pentahydrate (dry-cow premix; AZ)	Mineral or vitamin source for a premix
Manganese sulfate monohydrate (dry-cow premix; AZ)	Mineral or vitamin source for a premix
Calcium iodate anhydrous (premix preparation)	Mineral or vitamin source for a premix
Feed-grade vitamin A 1000 (premix preparation)	Mineral or vitamin source for a premix
Feed-grade vitamin D3 500 (premix preparation)	Mineral or vitamin source for a premix
Feed-grade vitamin E 50% (premix preparation)	Mineral or vitamin source for a premix
Manganese sulfate monohydrate (premix preparation)	Mineral or vitamin source for a premix

Which feeds does HerdMobile cover in Azerbaijan?

For Azerbaijan, HerdMobile covers the vitamin and mineral sources farmers use in premixes: feed-grade vitamin A, vitamin E and vitamin D3, anhydrous calcium iodate and manganese sulfate for mixing a premix, plus copper sulfate and manganese sulfate for a dry-cow premix. Each comes with its units and label values. Your hay, barley, pasture grass and any compound feed you buy make up the rest of the ration. Add them as your own feeds, starting from the wheat straw, alfalfa and barley pages if you have no analysis yet. HerdMobile calculates the daily amounts and the cost per head in manat from the feeds you choose.

How do pastures and stored hay share the year?

In Azerbaijan, summer and winter pastures are recognised in law as natural sources of feed, with rules on how the land is used. FAO advice for Azerbaijani farmers covers hay-making and small-scale silage, so there is still forage on the farm through the dry or cold season. FAO’s work on cattle in the country describes household herds and puts forage quality, silage and breeding at the heart of feeding. Match that picture to your own calendar: summer grazing in the high pastures, winter feed on the steppe, and a hay stack you can count in bales. Enter the bale weight and the price in manat in your feed stock, then build the ration from what is really in the yard.

Which breeds are covered for Azerbaijan?

For cattle, HerdMobile has Holstein, Simmental and Brown Swiss, each with typical milk-fat and true-protein figures from published research. Awassi and Merino are there for sheep flocks, and Angus for finishing beef cattle. Sheep in Azerbaijan are kept for meat, wool and milk alike, so record the breed name you actually use and keep each animal’s history in line with its ration. Enter live weight, stage and milk yield for the group you are feeding. The ration is calculated from your own feeds, with the breed’s milk composition close at hand.

What does working in manat give you?

Choose Azerbaijan as the farm country and HerdMobile keeps milk sales, feed purchases and animal prices in Azerbaijani manat (AZN). The same phone holds your notes on pasture moves, the hay stack and the mineral you mix into your premix. When the flock comes down from summer pasture, recalculate with the hay you stored and the compound feed or grain you add. Herd records keep births and weights. Farm finance keeps the manat invoices. HerdMobile runs on your Android phone even where the signal is weak. Save a backup file and keep a copy of your herd wherever you choose.

Breed profiles in the library

Questions from the farm

Which mineral and vitamin feeds are covered for Azerbaijan?

HerdMobile covers vitamin A, E and D3, calcium iodate, and copper and manganese sources for premixes in Azerbaijan. Add your own hay, barley and pasture as feeds, and calculate the ration from everything you feed.

How should I record the move between pastures?

Keep the animals in herd records and the hay stack in your feed stock. When grazing gives way to stored forage, calculate a new ration in manat and note the date of the change.

Which breed fits a dairy cow or a sheep?

Choose Holstein, Simmental or Brown Swiss for dairy cattle, and Awassi or Merino if those are the sheep you keep. Each breed page gives typical milk figures from published research.

How HerdMobile helps

Keep animals, feed stocks and farm money together on your Android phone. HerdMobile calculates the daily ration from the feeds you select, shows the kilos and the cost per animal, and stays with you when the connection is thin. Save a backup file whenever you want a copy in your own hands.