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<blockquote data-quote="Rydero" data-source="post: 1665214" data-attributes="member: 38101"><p>It's pretty simple. The supplement is 32% protein. 68% other things. So yes if they eat 2.5 lbs of supplement they are getting .8lbs of protein the other 68% a large percentage could be water. </p><p></p><p>If your lactating cow needs 15% protein (seems a little high off the top of my head) that means 15% of the feed she consumes for the day needs to be protein. If she eats 32 lbs of dry feed a day she needs 4.8 lbs of protein (32 x.15 =4.8). 2.5 lbs of your supplement supplies less than a lb of that for .36/h/d. It's expensive. I use ration software and generally speaking if I plug in 30% supplement in a ration where I'm feeding low quality hay at (say 5% protein) for every lb of supplement they eat the overall protein in the ration will go up about 1% - so if it was 5% if they eat 2.5 lbs of supplement it's moving from 5% to about 7.5%. That's about as simple as I can make it. Energy needs to be factored in too protein is just one part of the puzzle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rydero, post: 1665214, member: 38101"] It's pretty simple. The supplement is 32% protein. 68% other things. So yes if they eat 2.5 lbs of supplement they are getting .8lbs of protein the other 68% a large percentage could be water. If your lactating cow needs 15% protein (seems a little high off the top of my head) that means 15% of the feed she consumes for the day needs to be protein. If she eats 32 lbs of dry feed a day she needs 4.8 lbs of protein (32 x.15 =4.8). 2.5 lbs of your supplement supplies less than a lb of that for .36/h/d. It's expensive. I use ration software and generally speaking if I plug in 30% supplement in a ration where I'm feeding low quality hay at (say 5% protein) for every lb of supplement they eat the overall protein in the ration will go up about 1% - so if it was 5% if they eat 2.5 lbs of supplement it's moving from 5% to about 7.5%. That's about as simple as I can make it. Energy needs to be factored in too protein is just one part of the puzzle. [/QUOTE]
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