cattleman25
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Hello I have 52 dairy cows and their production has been abysmal the last 7-8 months, however 2 days ago it dropped even lower after turning out 3 new heifers to the herd.
Now we are at a 30 pound per cow average and will have to sale very soon. I run a TMR mix and feed 2500 pound per day including water. I have went through 3 different nutritionist's and 4 different rations and can not think of anything else to do.
The cows have been on the same pasture for the last year and acorns have not came out yet so thats ruled out, I was reading somewhere that stray voltage could cause milk problems but I dont know how that is possible with their teats are only touching rubber.
We have had only 1 or 2 cases of mastitis in the last year, also all of our automatic take offs have been removed so they aren't the problem. Another thing i've thought about was maybe a noxious weed but we have had dairy cattle in the same field for at least 80 years without a problem, and the cows all look and act healthy and fat.
We don't usually leave out free choice mineral but yesterday I put out some super 12 and they gobbled it all up so I am going to have my tmr mix analyzed at a lab.
What I don't know is what to do from there, I think Ive talked to all the local nutritionists, their solution is always that you need to buy what they are selling. My question is are their any independent Nutritionists or extension people to help???
We are a century farm and have a well established herd of Holsteins and have been feeding first cutting alfalfa
here is my ration and ingredients if it helps, any supposedly this will make up 75 lbs per day at 3.1% butter fat
as fed
corn grain ground 55%
soybean meal 48% 2.5%
corn gluten feed dehy 20%
distillers ethanol 22%
calcium 8%
salt 16.8%
sodium 20.4%
magnesiusm 3.9
copper 1,276
selenium 18%
zinc 4,748
Vit A 347,000 iu/lb
Vit D 81,000 iu/lb
Vit E 906 iu/lb
This is adjusted based on the hay tests that I dont have but the mix is exactly half feed half alfalfa
Here is useful table of mineral information if any one else is having the same problem
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache...ace&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us&client=firefox-a
please reply soon thanks in advance
Now we are at a 30 pound per cow average and will have to sale very soon. I run a TMR mix and feed 2500 pound per day including water. I have went through 3 different nutritionist's and 4 different rations and can not think of anything else to do.
The cows have been on the same pasture for the last year and acorns have not came out yet so thats ruled out, I was reading somewhere that stray voltage could cause milk problems but I dont know how that is possible with their teats are only touching rubber.
We have had only 1 or 2 cases of mastitis in the last year, also all of our automatic take offs have been removed so they aren't the problem. Another thing i've thought about was maybe a noxious weed but we have had dairy cattle in the same field for at least 80 years without a problem, and the cows all look and act healthy and fat.
We don't usually leave out free choice mineral but yesterday I put out some super 12 and they gobbled it all up so I am going to have my tmr mix analyzed at a lab.
What I don't know is what to do from there, I think Ive talked to all the local nutritionists, their solution is always that you need to buy what they are selling. My question is are their any independent Nutritionists or extension people to help???
We are a century farm and have a well established herd of Holsteins and have been feeding first cutting alfalfa
here is my ration and ingredients if it helps, any supposedly this will make up 75 lbs per day at 3.1% butter fat
as fed
corn grain ground 55%
soybean meal 48% 2.5%
corn gluten feed dehy 20%
distillers ethanol 22%
calcium 8%
salt 16.8%
sodium 20.4%
magnesiusm 3.9
copper 1,276
selenium 18%
zinc 4,748
Vit A 347,000 iu/lb
Vit D 81,000 iu/lb
Vit E 906 iu/lb
This is adjusted based on the hay tests that I dont have but the mix is exactly half feed half alfalfa
Here is useful table of mineral information if any one else is having the same problem
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache...ace&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us&client=firefox-a
please reply soon thanks in advance