celal izci The reduction in immune system negatively affects also foot. In addition, cows standing more time due to being heat stressed suffer more from foot problems.
Participation in Forum on June 6, 2023
Dearest Bill,
Thank you for your great paper. Just 2 questions:
1- Can we feed the cows only with organic trace minerals? Like what happened for horse and what Altech company did for horses (one-fifth of horse requirements are met by only organic trace minerals.
2- If Co requirement is this much low, why Availa4 is providing cows with the 5-6 times of requirements? Is there any logical reason be ...
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IntroductionPrecision nutrition means diets are formulated as close as possible to requirements while avoiding any deficiency issues. Benefits of precision mineral nutrition can include reduced diet costs, reduced environmental impact, and reduced risk of toxicity. The major problem with precision mineral nutrition is increased risk of deficiency. Deficiency can be manifested as a clinical deficie ...
Our Dairy NRC series of Real Science webinars was very well received and we are talking about the chapter on protein and amino acids.
While there is no data on this, it would most likely be best to deliver a second feeding (if feeding 2x/d) 12 hours later....and make sure feed is pushed up continually (ideally hourly) in between feed deliveries.
Ehsan Theoretically, the preferred ratio for all parameters studies is 1.0
To my opinion, being realistic, a ratio of above 0.9 for PR (which is different from CR), will be considered as good !
Participation in Forum on January 2, 2020
Thanks for your great paper. Do you have any prefer ratio for pregnancy rate? Or, pregnancy rate is the same as conception ratio?
Participation in Forum on December 18, 2019
Thanks for sharing your great experiences. What is the best summer: winter pregnancy rate based on your own studies? Do you have any document for that? I have one of your papers in which there is no information about pregnancy rate but there is some information about conception rate. As the second question, what is your opinion about "cross ventilation" in hot and dry area? Look forward to hearing ...
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Cooling means to reduce heat stress from cows was developed over the last four decades in Israel, and are applied to a different degree of success in many farms in the world. Cooling cows in the farm is based on the daily routine, which includes of cooling the cows by a combination of wetting and forced ventilation in the waiting yard and in the feeding line. In addition, cows are force venti ...
Ehsan The samples must be independent, not subsamples. So you sample forage, put it into a bag and then repeat entire process and put other sample into a bag and have lab analyze each bag