Participation in Forum on January 22, 2015
The most basic approach to estimate daily dry matter intake is calculate (roughly) a 3% of the body weight. ( in the case of your cows = 18 kg of dry matter coming from roughage, remember IS A ESTIMATE) Splitting it In 3 meals/day. At the milking parlor you can give them a couple of kg. of concentrate every time the cows are going to be milked. IT'S A EXTREMELY BASIC RATION NOT CONSIDERING CO ...
Participation in Forum on January 20, 2015
You can offer Alfalfa soiling (must be wilted) and hay as a base diet and some kind of grain (low protein high energy) or wheat bran and a source of P to balance the diet depending on the group production, and keep the costs as low as possible.Also we must know the milk potential of the cows, days in milk, parturition ordinal number, health condition of the herd. And overall, we need to know your ...
Participation in Forum on January 19, 2015
What kind of roughage do you have?
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