dairy cow nutrition

dar31

how many of ye get some one to do you nutrition, and who do you get.

jeff greene

Use Agriking here.

fatoftheland

my feed sales rep does all my nutrition work

dar31

jeff greene wrote: »

Use Agriking here.

how do you find them. do they cover all nutrition or only milking rations.
how much do they cost, and what do you get for it.

get reasonable service of teagasc and sales rep (usual one is on maternity at moment, and new lad a bit vague). had keenans for two years when we bought last feeder, bloody useless, had to keep chasing them to get basic service.

being paid on solids for all milk now inc liquid, so need that little bit extra.

need milking/ dry cow diets and mineral supplementation advise.

bob charles

dar31 wrote: »

how do you find them. do they cover all nutrition or only milking rations.
how much do they cost, and what do you get for it.

get reasonable service of teagasc and sales rep (usual one is on maternity at moment, and new lad a bit vague). had keenans for two years when we bought last feeder, bloody useless, had to keep chasing them to get basic service.

being paid on solids for all milk now inc liquid, so need that little bit extra.

need milking/ dry cow diets and mineral supplementation advise.

Knowing exactly what you have in feed terms is most of the battle(all forage analysis), its not that hard to formulation diets yourself. I would have a decent grasp of it myself on the beef side and having spoken to a good few people in the past I reckon there is only a half dozen people in the country that a red hot on nutrition. I have adopted a different route with the beef diet side of things over the last few years and instead of trying to achieve top LWG using expensive ingredients now its a much cheaper diet giving a LWG a little bit lower than the top but at a much reduced cost.

jeff greene

dar31 wrote: »

need milking/ dry cow diets and mineral supplementation advise.

Yeah, they'll do all that and more!

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