DAIRY FEEDS

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DAIRY FEEDS FEEDING

• CONCEPTS OF NUTRITION

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I. INTRODUCTION
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A. What makes a successful dairy operation?

• 1. Many things MANAGEMENT is the primary key
  that opens the door to success, however.
• 2. Good Management will include
• a. Breeding program
• b. Selection and culling
• c. Herd Health program
• d. Proper record-keeping.
• e. Sufficient Labor Force.
• f. Equipment and Facilities
• g. Milking Program
• h. Feeding program.

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• 3. Which of the items listed above is the most
  important?
• a. Allthey all act as spokes of a wheel
  attached to the Hub of the wheel.
• b. The hub can be considered as Proper
  Management.
• c. Each of the items listed become the spokes.
• d. If you had to pick one of the hubs as being
  perhaps more important than others it would be
  the feeding program.
• e. 60 - 70 of the total cost of milk
  production is feed.

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• f. A feeding (nutrition) program cannot be taken
  for granted.
• g. Do not try to do it all yourself.
• 1) Learn as much about nutrition as you possibly
  can.
• a) Attend feed seminars
• b) Subscribe to Agriculture Extension Bulletins.
• c) Subscribe to Dairy Publications
• d) Etc.

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• 2) Find a good Feed Consultant (Nutritionist)
  and/or Feed Representative.
• a) listen and learn from your expert
• b) Read
• c) Observe results
• d) Talk to successful dairymen
• 3) You then decide a plan to follow.

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• h. We live in a time of specialistsAnd as time
  passes you must depend even more on these
  sources.
• 1) Types of specialists
• a) Nutritionists
• b) Mating Specialist
• c) Veterinarian
• d) Accountant
• e) Crop Scientist
• 2) Hire somebody trained and pay them .they
  should return you the cost and then more.

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II. Development of the Feeds Industry
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A. Greatest contribution in Feed Technology.

• 1. During the last 20/30 years
• a. Learned more about animal nutrition during
  this time than in all of previous history.
• b. It is likely that we will learn more in the
  next 10 years than we did in the last 20 30
  years.

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B. Specific Contributing Events

• 1. 1700s Learned about combustion and
  oxidation of feeds. (Transfer of electrons from
  one molecule to another)
• 2. 1800s Discover proteins, Carbohydrates and
  Fats Labeled them as nutrients.
• 3. Late 1800s Began running a few feed
  trials.
• 4. 1911 Published feed test results from feed
  trials.

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• 5. 1913 Discovered
• a. Hormones
• b. Antibiotics
• c. That a cow needs 20 (or more) different
  chemical elements.
• 6. Today much information and data is available
  on specific feeds.even though some of it may not
  be totally accurate.
• a. Example N.R.C. changes each publication.
  (Decisions are made by a committee of
  nutritionists.)
• b. Data serves as a guideline.

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C. First Feed Books of Significant Value

• 1. 1898 Morrison Feeds and Feeding
• 2. 1936 Morrison Feeds and Feeding basically
  became the bible of animal nutrition.
• 3. Since then there have been many books written
  on animal nutrition.

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YOUR DONE!