Re: Cattle Feed

Posted by bbott on March 03, 2002 at 19:46:35 from (206.13.45.120):

In Reply to: Cattle Feed posted by Mark on March 03, 2002 at 18:53:38:

Dairy cows need rich food to produce milk. Nice fresh grass is the ticket (when it can grow) plus a little molasses grain /loomix or such for a sweetener. The big challenge is providing them the right food when the grass doesn't grow.

Good quality hay forms a base for their diet, but then you must supplement with enough high-energy 'kicker' to keep them in milk.

Many places around here (NW California) are now using 'haylage'... which is green hay round baled and polyethylene wrapped.

It ferments in the wrap and makes a nice silage-like mix. In the old days they used silage choppers and kept the green stuff in silo's, but it's less work and less $$ this way.

I've never been to Ohio, so I can't speak to what would do best for your winter supplement. Corn and wheat like you mentioned I suppose.

Do you know how much work you're in for? Dairy cows are 24 x 7 x 365. They don't take holidays or vacations or even have weekends... neither will you, unless you hire experienced, reliable help, and that's hard to find.

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