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It’s a good idea to keep walking your heifer pens and assessing their body conditions at all stages of development.
Cattleman’s Corner, Dairy Cattle, The Dairy Corner

Watch dairy heifers grow on well-balanced diets

The Dairy Corner: There are numerous ways to get a quality mix to a farm’s heifers

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I have balanced many dairy heifer replacement diets in the last few months. It’s a pretty easy exercise once I put it down on a PDF spreadsheet and email it to the dairy producer. I am confident all heifer nutrient requirements are met, given how heifers consume it. Plus, I want to make these diets […] Read more
Hoof strength problems are one area where the use of chelated minerals could make sense.
Cattleman’s Corner, The Dairy Corner

Strategic use of chelated minerals makes financial sense

Dairy Corner: There are specific cases where chelated minerals should be used in dairy diets

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In the last couple of years, I’ve noticed most dairy lactation diets contain a fortified level of chelated trace minerals. When I ask dairy producers why they feed them over conventional ones, they often say they don’t know or their nutritionist thinks it’s a good idea. There is nothing technically wrong with feeding chelated trace […] Read more
There’s value in adding biotin to dairy diets
Cattleman’s Corner, The Dairy Corner

There’s value in adding biotin to dairy diets

Important to milk production and hoof health, biotin can get lost in the nutrient shuffle

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It’s long been recognized that lactating dairy cows have a specific requirement for biotin which may not be met by natural synthesis in the rumen. Much research in the early 2000s demonstrated biotin supplements to lactating dairy diets yields respectable improvements in hoof health and better milk production. With the advent of many available feed […] Read more

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