Cow Feeding Articles
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Ruminants: The importance of feed analysis
Why is it important to have a high-quality feed? The quality of ruminant feed is directly linked with milk production, animal health, as well as farm performance. As feed costs represent a significant number of the total production costs, it is crucial to ensure feed nutritional values and quality throughout the whole year. Therefore, the intake of superior quality TMR and silages can help to ...
By SOILCARES
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Correct use of ring die of animal livestock horse goat sheep rabbit shrimp feed pellet mill machine
First of all, under the premise of selecting high quality ring die, appropriate die hole form, open hole ratio and compression ratio (compression ratio = effective length of die hole/die hole diameter) should be selected according to the feed variety, formula and output. Generally speaking, straight holes and stepped holes are suitable for processing compound feed; Conical hole is suitable for ...
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Magnesium Bioavailability Update
What have we learned about magnesium nutrition in animals during the past few years? Several research reports have been published which increase our understanding of Mg utilization. While an earlier generation of researchers concentrated more of their efforts on solving the grass tetany problem, recent research has emphasized the areas of absorption, bioavailability of Mg sources, the effects of ...
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Automated Feeders Offer Explorations into New Management Practices to Improve Stillborn Rates
A 5,000-Head Commercial Sow-Farm Research Introduction In modern sow farms, piglet mortality is the leading restraint in producers not reaching their maximum production potential. According to the last US national database evaluation performed by Dr. Stalder in 2018, the US had an industry average of ~26% pre-weaning mortality, with nearly 10% of those attributed to stillborn (Stalder, 2018). ...
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Project - Auxerre France
Plant’s power: 150 Nm3/h Daily Feeding: 27 t cow manure, 14 t sewage sludge, 8 t agrofood industry wastes, 5 t crops, 3 t cereal dust Goal: increase the gas production and improve the viscosity To see video, please click ...
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Project - Belfast, Northern Ireland
Plant’s power: 500 kW/h Daily Feeding: Grass silage, Maize silage, Chicken manure, Maize meal feed, Cow slurry Goal: replace the most expensive biomass (silage and corn flour), increasing the amount of grass silage and improving the viscosity into digesters To see video, please click ...
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Project - Belfast, Northern Ireland
Plant’s power: 500 kW/h Daily Feeding: Grass silage, Maize silage, Chicken manure, Maize meal feed, Cow slurry Goal: Increase the digestibility of grass silage, reduce the amount of silage and corn flour and improve the viscosity in digesters To see video, please click ...
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Cost-effective Pelletizing Machine For Dairy Feed Production
Dairy animals such as goats, cows, buffaloes, camels, etc. need to be fed nutritious food so that they can produce a good amount of milk every day. Dairy feed pellets have all the essential components mixed in them that are needed to make nutritive milk. Animal feed pellet machine is used to manufacture dairy feed of different diameters (2 to 10mm usually) and size. A variety of raw materials ...
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Ruminant Animal Feed Production Business Plan
In recent years, more and more farmers who feed cattle, cow, sheep and other animals choose to make their own animal feed by purchasing a small set of ruminant animal feed production plant. How much does it cost to set up an animal feed production plant? What’s the price of small feed processing unit? How to make the best ruminant animal feed production business plan? Hot Sale Equipment ...
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Choose A Pelletizing Machine For Dairy Feed Making Business
Feed pellet making machine is used to manufacture dairy feed of different diameters (2 to 10mm usually) and size. A variety of raw materials such as rice husk, corn, wheat bran, etc. can be used to make nutritious pellets. The choice of raw material depends on the type of animals and their dietary needs. With the continuous improvement of the intensive production level of dairy cow breeding ...
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Before the Sun Rises: Dusk. Dawn. Dairy. Diamond V. In Celebration of International Women`s Day
Rise and Shine You rise at 5:00am. The alarm clock goes off on the cherry-stained nightstand. Instinctively, you shut it off and step out of bed. You quickly get dressed and shuffle downstairs. Entering the kitchen, you start the coffee pot. Your favorite white ceramic cup, with a chip on the handle, hangs above the kitchen sink. Pulling it from the hook, you fill it to the brim, taking a second ...
By Diamond V
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Ventilation and cooling system to improve animal welfare and productivity
My name is Segev Segalchick, involved in the Dairy business for more than 25 years as Farm Manager, General Manager and consultant in Israel and around the world. I have degree of Animal engineer from Ruppin Academy in Israel and several study in Academy in US, Spain and others. ...
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Project - Climate Feed
Seaweed in cattle feed to reduce greenhouse gas from burping dairy cows Seaweed could contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. The research project Climate Feed will develop seaweed feed supplement with funding from Innovation Fund Denmark. There’s a huge potential in reducing cows’ emission of methane and, consequently, greenhouse gases. The major part of ...
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The Art of Feeding: Empty Bunks
The Art of Feeding is techniques that require a person to observe or to act. This is what moves an average feeding department to excellence. In the last couple of weeks my brother in law was helping me put up a fence. He is a retired manager for a major dairy processor. In our discussion he talked a lot about a 1996 research study that was commission by Coca-Cola to look for incremental sale ...
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Running an Efficiency Audit on your Feed Center
If you are like most producers, at one point or another you toy with the idea of re-designing your feed center. Today there are lots of good examples of indoor feed centers and it yields the question, do I need a fancy feed center? If I take the plunge what will it do for me? Before jumping to a re-design, perhaps an efficiency audit is in order... What is a feed center for? The main purpose ...
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MILAS: springboard to the future for Vitelia Voeders
The search for an ERP solution that would better meet the needs of today and leave enough space for the possibilities of tomorrow, led animal feed manufacturer Vitelia Voeders to Adifo. The powerful combination of Adifo’s sector-specific ERP flagship MILAS and Microsoft Dynamics 365 turned out to perfectly meet Vitelia Voeders’ demand. The result: a customer ready for further growth ...
By BESTMIX
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Things You Need To Know About Dairy Cattle Feed Pellets Formulations
Dairy cattle’s stomach is different from pigs, horses, rabbits, and other livestock, generally, feed without sufficient chewing will reach the stomach. It is not only large in volume but also different in structure and function from that of single stomach livestock. Animal feed machine is indispensable equipment to make dairy cattle feed pellets. Zhengzhou Fusmar is a professional feed ...
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Latest Recipe Specification USA Regulations: What You Need to Know
If you are connected to the US animal feed and pet food business, you know how important it is to stay current on (and compliant with) regulations regarding recipes and recipe specification. But the exact expectations can be a bit murky. The FDA’s guidelines are somewhat ambiguous, and yet a failure to comply can have serious negative effects on your business. If you are looking to stay up ...
By BESTMIX
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Effect of Agrilaser at US dairy farm with starling problem - Case Study
A dairy farm in Idaho, United States was faced with a tremendous starling problem. Each year thousands and thousands of starlings arrived in flocks. Starlings are attracted by comfortable resting places inside which hold an abundant and easy-access food source. This particular farm experienced problems both inside the stables as outside on the land. The birds were feeding on the cow feed, ...
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How a Hustler Chainless 2000 bale feeder is working after 5 years on a French farm
Why is a farmer loyal to a brand? Potentially because a brand is able to provide a useful piece of equipment, or even because it's fancy and easy to use. But most of all, because it's reliable and it will never let them down. This is the story of Pascal Vallat, a French farmer who bought a Hustler CH2000 bale feeder five years ago. After thousands and thousands of bales unrolled on its clock, ...
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