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Hi friends, Has anybody used pelletted alfalfa in their dairy cattle rations. If I have chance I want to use it. But I have doubts because of the particular size of the TMR. If I use the alfalfa pellets instead of hay, the particular size of the TMR will be small. And I think this may cause the acidosis, affect the rumen metabolism. So If there is somebody has used it, share us his experiments, I ...

Hello Everybody, The forage prices is very high in Turkey in 2012. Wheat straw is 217.4€/mt and 326.1€/mt for alfalfa hay. In this situation it is very difficult to held a dairy cattle farming. So we have started looking for alternative forage sources. One guy from Israel has adviced me to use corn straw. I have made quick research about it. I got different kind of opinion from people. ...

Hi, I just want to have information about guar korma. is it used to feed dariy cattle? If yes how many kilos of it should be used per animal? I have heart that it is used by some feed mills in Turkey. But I have another information that it cause milk yield deppression?

Hi Has anybody known that metabolic energy for dairy cattle which is generated by Cornell Universty?

I need information about haylage using in dairy cattle feeding. In Turkey it is not common even there is no farm using haylage. This subject is very new for us. So I need any information about haylage. - What kind of hay is suitable for haylage? - Do we need to use inoculant for it? - When is the adequate cutting time? - What is the limit of use? - What kind of equipments do we need? - What is th ...

Hello everybody, There is a dairy farm in Turkey. The avarage milk yield of the cows is about 32 lt/day. For 10-15 days, it has seen cecal dilatation and right displaced abomasum very often. As I know either cecal dilatation or displaced abomasum is related wtih particul size of TMR and low forage: concantre ratio in TMR. But the interesting thing is, none of them is wrong. I mean there is 45% of ...

Thank You very much to Pari Valal. It is very clear info about Guar Korma. And thank for everybody for sharing experience with me.

Firstly I have to thank for usefull and nice article. I want to ask a question. We can measure dry matter, crude protein, ash, crude fiber, fat in our laboratory. I want to calculate net energy lactation values of feed stufs we use. But I could not reach the right formulas. In last article I read from the internet I should know DE for calculatin Nel. Do you have DE formulas for different kind of f ...

Thank you very much. I think I need to buy this programme to use this formula. I have tried to download it many times but I couldn't make it run. I need to find the metabolic energy formula for dairy cattle a.s.p. If anybody help me, I would be glad.

Dear Ferrari, Could pleae give me more explanation or search address about "barley green sprouted"? I do not know this raw material. what is the dry matter, protein..etc. Thank you