Dairy Cattle: What’s the Scoop on Evaluating Manure?
Published:June 17, 2008
Summary
There are many ways to evaluate whether your feeding program is on track. These include milk production, milk components, metabolic disorders, cud chewing, and particle size of feed fed and refusals. One other monitor is evaluation of manure. It’s a dirty job, but somebody needs to do it. Manure evaluation is not a precise science, but used along with other measures it can help confirm other obse...