AN S 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Beet Pulp, Weaning, Yokohama Rubber Company
17 Apr 2019
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Identify the benefits of early weaning practices: describe and defined fence line weaning practices, discuss potential drawbacks of creep feeding. Also, added bloom, weight gives advan. to merchandizing efforts. Notes on creep feed: keep it simple, keep it highly dense, palatable, e. g. 50% corn, 40% oats, 5% protein, 5% molasses coarse ground, avoid dust, pelleted. Isu research with gluten feed palatable increased consumption by. 1. 5 to 2 pounds per day simple rations best - just digestible. Say, all oats, 50-50 oats and barley or corn. bulky feeds like oats, alfalfa. dehyd. F/g: wide variation in studies, variation caused by waste of feed ( facilities, wind, feeder design, etc), location of feeder relative to cow activity - frequency of exposure, etc. Creep feeding: why not: why not? cost effective, cost of added weight is usually higher than return replacement heifers, feeders too fleshy repl. heifers too fat.
