Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Forums
Cattle Boards
Beginners Board
Drying up a Cow
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support CattleToday:
Message
<blockquote data-quote="milkmaid" data-source="post: 186508" data-attributes="member: 852"><p>bigbull - I know it's a hot subject. But speaking from experience, I've seen cows with 7 days dry (accident!) and cows with 100 days dry (another accident), and those cows that were only dry for 7 days don't milk anything like what they did the previous lactation. They aren't anywhere near their potential. I don't see much difference in 60 days dry vs. 100 days dry - doesn't seem to make them milk any better or less. 30 days is iffy; some cows do fine on it, some cows end up getting culled because it was too little time to recover from the previous lactation and they can't milk well enough to pay their way.</p><p></p><p>I know a fellow who runs a dairy herd (50 cows) and a beef herd (40 cows) and he manages his beef herd similar to the dairy herd. Beef cows raise one calf a year, calf is weaned at 10 months, cow gets 60 days dry, and she starts all over again. He says he can't see the point in feeding a dry cow for six months when she only needs two months dry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="milkmaid, post: 186508, member: 852"] bigbull - I know it's a hot subject. But speaking from experience, I've seen cows with 7 days dry (accident!) and cows with 100 days dry (another accident), and those cows that were only dry for 7 days don't milk anything like what they did the previous lactation. They aren't anywhere near their potential. I don't see much difference in 60 days dry vs. 100 days dry - doesn't seem to make them milk any better or less. 30 days is iffy; some cows do fine on it, some cows end up getting culled because it was too little time to recover from the previous lactation and they can't milk well enough to pay their way. I know a fellow who runs a dairy herd (50 cows) and a beef herd (40 cows) and he manages his beef herd similar to the dairy herd. Beef cows raise one calf a year, calf is weaned at 10 months, cow gets 60 days dry, and she starts all over again. He says he can't see the point in feeding a dry cow for six months when she only needs two months dry. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Cattle Boards
Beginners Board
Drying up a Cow
Top