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Regenerative Agriculture and Direct Drilling
Holistic Farming
"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 7278826" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>Not at all - walking takes energy, that's maybe the flaw in measuring feed as "drymatter" rather than in what energy can be metabolised from that amount.</p><p>A maintenance diet may maintain an animal at a trough but if she has to walk 8 miles to scrape lichen off a rock then it won't. </p><p>That's one of the benefits of raising your animal days/ha, you nail their feet to the floor so they don't waste energy warming their muscles but put it back into the soil via their hoof action</p><p></p><p>Likewise, if you're seriously budgeting feed then you'll need to account for terrain, distance walked, stage of pregnancy, lactation level, and weight gain/loss.</p><p></p><p>I can't link it but DairyNZ has a "facts and figures" booklet with a lot of useful info, including a whole chapter of feeding information.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 7278826, member: 63856"] Not at all - walking takes energy, that's maybe the flaw in measuring feed as "drymatter" rather than in what energy can be metabolised from that amount. A maintenance diet may maintain an animal at a trough but if she has to walk 8 miles to scrape lichen off a rock then it won't. That's one of the benefits of raising your animal days/ha, you nail their feet to the floor so they don't waste energy warming their muscles but put it back into the soil via their hoof action Likewise, if you're seriously budgeting feed then you'll need to account for terrain, distance walked, stage of pregnancy, lactation level, and weight gain/loss. I can't link it but DairyNZ has a "facts and figures" booklet with a lot of useful info, including a whole chapter of feeding information. [/QUOTE]
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