So the best way to reduce oils is plant breeding and slow wilting?
Suppose so, but why would you want to do that as you will be reducing the Omega 3 & 9 content which people who sell on pasture fed beef use as one of their selling points?So the best way to reduce oils is plant breeding and slow wilting?
Oil levels in dairy cow diets suppress fat and we're on a manufacturing contract
All I know is we had high oil levels in the grass samples pre silaging, and I've just changed half of the silage were feeding for 1st cut and fats dropped from 4.2 to 3.75 although we did gain nearly a litre of milk but I didn't change anything else in the diet sooooI think you need to stop talking to feed reps!
I'm not a chemist but I do know that milk butterfat usually responds pretty quick to diet changes, but milk protein takes at least a fortnightShould also say I've taken the 1st cut back out and fats are already back up to 4 on the next milk sample and milk protein has stayed exactly the same at 3.55
How long was this grass in the pit was it stable secondly with the extra liter did your solids production actually fall?Should also say I've taken the 1st cut back out and fats are already back up to 4 on the next milk sample and milk protein has stayed exactly the same at 3.55
The silage was stable, it had been made 3weeks earlier I'll post the analysis as soon as I can. And total solids fell from 2.41 to 2.34 and financially we'd be 1000 pounds worse off per monthHow long was this grass in the pit was it stable secondly with the extra liter did your solids production actually fall?
We're not feeding any protected fats or any yeast but only have grass silage available, this is on cows that are fully housed but we do have some cows grazing but there diet hasn't changed but obviously grass can be hugely variable.In spring when our fat test wants to drop. I reduce grain and give 2kg of a good oat silage. Doesn't work with poorer silage because the cows won't eat it with spring grass there.
Keeps the test and liters up and annoys the feed rep because I don't go for any of the hocus pocus additives.