Dry cow management/diet is one of those things that does and doesn’t work on different farms,I had 12 months of feeding chopped hay with a percentage of my milk cow diet,it worked a treat then when the hay was replaced it all went wrong
Everything scraped onto slats here so I chop it mainly to keep it in the trough and keep intakes up,I recently bought a herd that was averaging 12,500 litres so they do deserve a little tlc,if I was milking grazing rats I’d have a slightly different view on my dry cows needs.
Everything scraped onto slats here so I chop it mainly to keep it in the trough and keep intakes up,I recently bought a herd that was averaging 12,500 litres so they do deserve a little tlc,if I was milking grazing rats I’d have a slightly different view on my dry cows needs.