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<blockquote data-quote="linbul" data-source="post: 713570" data-attributes="member: 10356"><p>I think most of the answers overseen that fact. Actually if the feeding is spread trough long time period, cows are willing to eat more and faster, so they put more fat deposits than in regular free choice feeding. Just meeting the forecoming 1-2 "hungry" days. It's not a problem now, but when the calving season is close, that would bring some problems to you.</p><p>Here we have much different system, but I'll tell you our trick. We use wheat straw for bedding in the winter sheds. We put some more straw, keeping the hay and supplemental just in the 2,5% average. When cows finish with the feed, they just continue "fooling themselves" eating the straw (it has virtually no cost and very small nutritional value).</p><p>One more thing - You realize that the 2-3% ratio is for feeding dry matter weight, right?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="linbul, post: 713570, member: 10356"] I think most of the answers overseen that fact. Actually if the feeding is spread trough long time period, cows are willing to eat more and faster, so they put more fat deposits than in regular free choice feeding. Just meeting the forecoming 1-2 "hungry" days. It's not a problem now, but when the calving season is close, that would bring some problems to you. Here we have much different system, but I'll tell you our trick. We use wheat straw for bedding in the winter sheds. We put some more straw, keeping the hay and supplemental just in the 2,5% average. When cows finish with the feed, they just continue "fooling themselves" eating the straw (it has virtually no cost and very small nutritional value). One more thing - You realize that the 2-3% ratio is for feeding dry matter weight, right? [/QUOTE]
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