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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 7883943" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>l started when cow rationing, was HE, or hay equivalent, remembered as 2 flaps of hay, and a shovel full of soaked sugarbeet per cow, over night, when tied up, day was kale.</p><p>Then along came the 'new' system, SE starch equivalent, focusing on 'energy', for us, that was straw yards, self feed silage, and adlib hay. Both worked, simple and profitable.</p><p></p><p>After them, not sure which came, all in ever increasing complexity, and today, you can easily feed a highly complicated, carefully weighed TMR ration, containing little bits, of 'all sorts', which are claimed to do, x y z, and expensive. And breeders have produced a cow that probably does need all those 'bits', to give you up to 15x1000 litres.</p><p></p><p>most of us do not have the time, inclination, or the cows, to do that, so we still try to follow these rations, and fall short, cows don't milk so well, acidosis, ketosis, DA's etc follow. In fact many are reverting back, to pre holstien type cows. And as l have said before, farmers are experts at complicating farming systems, the true winners, are the reps and millers. Millers need watching, especially with what they include in their concoctions, probably better than what is in some highly processed human feeds.</p><p></p><p>But even the HE and SE rations work quite well today, with the simpler bred cows, and as KP said, rationing is easy, get the cow to eat large quantities of quality food/fodder, whether grass or silage/hay, for maintenance +, we know the cow needs more, to produce more than 10/12 litres, maize, and conc, sorts that, the better/simpler the ingredients, the better the conc. The most interesting 'bit', when at a party, speaking to a human nutritionist, re cow rationing, we are so far ahead, on our cow rations, versus human, both she and l, were gobsmacked.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 7883943, member: 86168"] l started when cow rationing, was HE, or hay equivalent, remembered as 2 flaps of hay, and a shovel full of soaked sugarbeet per cow, over night, when tied up, day was kale. Then along came the 'new' system, SE starch equivalent, focusing on 'energy', for us, that was straw yards, self feed silage, and adlib hay. Both worked, simple and profitable. After them, not sure which came, all in ever increasing complexity, and today, you can easily feed a highly complicated, carefully weighed TMR ration, containing little bits, of 'all sorts', which are claimed to do, x y z, and expensive. And breeders have produced a cow that probably does need all those 'bits', to give you up to 15x1000 litres. most of us do not have the time, inclination, or the cows, to do that, so we still try to follow these rations, and fall short, cows don't milk so well, acidosis, ketosis, DA's etc follow. In fact many are reverting back, to pre holstien type cows. And as l have said before, farmers are experts at complicating farming systems, the true winners, are the reps and millers. Millers need watching, especially with what they include in their concoctions, probably better than what is in some highly processed human feeds. But even the HE and SE rations work quite well today, with the simpler bred cows, and as KP said, rationing is easy, get the cow to eat large quantities of quality food/fodder, whether grass or silage/hay, for maintenance +, we know the cow needs more, to produce more than 10/12 litres, maize, and conc, sorts that, the better/simpler the ingredients, the better the conc. The most interesting 'bit', when at a party, speaking to a human nutritionist, re cow rationing, we are so far ahead, on our cow rations, versus human, both she and l, were gobsmacked. [/QUOTE]
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