CLOSE-UP DRY COWS – TRANSITION DAIRY COWS NUTRTION The close-up dry cow group includes cows within 21 days of expected calving. A cow’s immune system becomes down three weeks after calving. Maintaining dry matter intake is also critical at this time. The fetus’ nutritional needs continue to rise three weeks before delivery, although dry matter […]
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How Can We Reduce The Use Of Antibiotics In Dairy Animals? Dairy cows, like other farm animals (and humans for that matter), sometimes get sick, requiring an antibiotic. Antibiotics have been widely used in livestock since the 1940’s. In Pakistan, as the dairy industry is transformed over the few years, requiring better disease management on
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FAR-OFF DRY COWS – TRANSITION DAIRY COWS NUTRTION The transition phase, which begins three weeks before calving and ends three weeks after calving, is a key and high-risk period for dairy cows. The cow will not only calve, but she will also be required to produce enough high-quality milk afterward. Cows’ immunological responses are suppressed
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Nutrition Management Of High Milk Producing Dairy Cows Nutrition play an important role in the production of animals and when it comes to high milk producing animals, then our little negligence can lead to bigger economic losses because the high lactating cows are highly sensitive to nutrition as well as environment. Our dairy farmers who
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THINGS TO REMEMBER WHILE SILAGE MAKING Silage is a very wholesome and simple-to-digest feed for cattle. Since silage takes up less room than hay, it is significantly simpler to store. Your domestic animals will produce more milk and remain healthier if you give them silage. When there is a lack of green forage, cattle are
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FACTORS AFFECTING SILAGE QUALITY Good animal performance depends on silage quality, which also lowers winter feed costs and boosts profitability during the housing season. The majority of winter feeding program in our country are based on grass silage, and proper intake of high-quality silage is a key aspect in ensuring that animals perform satisfactorily. The
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BASIC GUIDELINES FOR SELECTION OF CORN SILAGE HYBRIDS To produce silage and milk profitably, corn hybrid selection is very crucial. You may manage risk and improve silage quality, production, and overall economic return by carefully selecting your silage hybrid. Selection of Hybrids for corn silage Longer-season hybrids typically generate more silage per acre. In general,
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ROLE OF VITAMINS IN DAIRY COWS Minerals and vitamins account a very small amount in daily dry matter intake of cattle diets and can sometimes be miss or neglected in cattle daily nutritional program. Although vitamins or minerals are needed in a very small proportion in daily diet but they have a very crucial role
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ROLE OF PROTEIN IN DAIRY COW NUTRITION During lactation, the nutritional requirement of cows get increased as more nutrients are required for the production of milk and milk components. Meeting these requirements efficiently especially for energy and protein are challenging for farmers. Their diet must have sufficient nutrients to maintain the health and other metabolic
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ROLE OF FATS IN DAIRY COW NUTRITION Fats is an essential part of animal nutrition. Fats is a part of diet nutrition just like carbohydrates and protein and a major source of energy as well. They are usually made up of fatty acids either saturated or unsaturated. Addition of fats to the daily diet of
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