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<blockquote data-quote="Farmer 83563" data-source="post: 7775696" data-attributes="member: 114846"><p>I have a simple spreadsheet that Trevor Cook (NZ Vet) gave me to guide us on when to allocated feed to suckler cows. Can't attach it here as its in Excel but if you dm your email I can send it you.</p><p></p><p>His message at the time:</p><p></p><p><em>One of the things that I noticed my whole trip was that breeding cows were over fed. There was no concept of when they could be restricted. There is good science that confirms that a cow has a more productive life if it loses 10% of its body weight between weaning and four weeks before calving starts. The feed being fed to the cows in both Wales and France was expensive feed and it did not need to be that quality or that much.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farmer 83563, post: 7775696, member: 114846"] I have a simple spreadsheet that Trevor Cook (NZ Vet) gave me to guide us on when to allocated feed to suckler cows. Can't attach it here as its in Excel but if you dm your email I can send it you. His message at the time: [I]One of the things that I noticed my whole trip was that breeding cows were over fed. There was no concept of when they could be restricted. There is good science that confirms that a cow has a more productive life if it loses 10% of its body weight between weaning and four weeks before calving starts. The feed being fed to the cows in both Wales and France was expensive feed and it did not need to be that quality or that much.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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