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Feeding Signals - A practical guide to feeding dairy cows for health and production

Jan Hulsen, Dries Aerden & Jack Rodenburg

A Guide To Optimal Feeding Management & Production

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Feeding Signals answers the four practical questions that every dairy farmer and worker in every dairy farm asks:
1. What should I feed and how much?
2. What is the best way to make sure every animal gets the right ration?
3. How do I check that every animal is eating what it should be eating?
4. How do I make adjustments and solve particular problems?

The authors of Feeding Signals are Jan Hulsen from Vetvice and Dries Aerden from LIBA. With a team of eight vets, Vetvice trains and advises dairy farmers and farm consultants. Dries Aerden is a farm economics consultant and nutritionist at LIBA, a Belgian consultancy operating in the Flemish and Dutch dairy sector.

Cow Signals® Concept and training

Feeding perfect rations is only possible when you understand feed analysis, the properties of the feed, the way a cow works and her milk production.

From mouth to rumens and intestines, Feeding Signals shows you the cow’s feed requirements and ensures her daily rations.

Feeding Signals has a portrait size of 20,5 x 26,5 cm, includes 80 pages, more than 300 photos and illustrations

Published: 2013

ISBN: 9789087401566

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Type: Paperback

Pages: 80

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Availability: Available

About the author

Jan Hulsen grew up on a farm with dairy cattle and pigs. He began studying agricultural science and then switched to veterinary medicine. After three years working as a farm vet, he started to focus on education and consultancy. To that end, he became involved in journalism, marketing and business management.

With his company Vetvice, Jan developed the CowSignals® concept, and wrote the successful CowSignals books series.

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Contents:

INTRODUCTION: Behavioural needs and feeding behaviour

Behavioural needs
Feed and digestion in the cow
Rumen fuction: mixing, passage
Digestion of feedstuffs
Energy and protien drive fermentation
Feed intake, milk production and rumen pH
Rumen pH

SECTION ONE: Eating

Optimal eating
Water intake
Plenty of time to eat
Eating in comfort
Space, rest and peace
Walking and lying in comfort
Heat stress
Grazing

SECTION TWO: Storage, loading and feeding

Optimal feeding
Loading, mixing, feeding
Loading the feed mixer wagon
Measuring = knowing what is really happening
Monitoring and calibration
The manger
Using the forage seperator
Ensiling
Optimal Graxing

SECTION THREE: Ration calculation

Rumen fermentation rate
Fibre
Assessing the forage analysis
Assessing forage
Forage inventory
TMR: Total Mixed Ration
PMR: Partial Mixed Ration
Forage analysis: explanation of terms

SECTION FOUR: Measuring and managing via the cow

Identifying and reducing sorting
Assessing individual feed intake
Rumen fill
Rumen fill and function
Addressing problems;making improvements
Assessing manure
Manure consistency scorecard
Feed digestion scorecard
Manure sieving instruction card
Scheme assessing sieved manure

SECTION FIVE: Measuring and managing as manager

Measuring and analysing
Targeting economy: income over feed cost
Targeting feed conversion efficency
Targeting milk production
Dry period
Successful dry period and transition

SECTION SIX Feeding-related cow problems

Abnormal behaviour and feeding
Ketosis and fatty liver
Milk fever
Too much acid production in the rumen
Abnormal displacement to the left or the right
Managing BCS
Nutrition status, production and fertility
Foot problems
Minerals: too little or too much
Hardware disease

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This book weighs: 440g

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ROW	£14.00
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Feeding Signals - A practical guide to feeding dairy cows for health and production