16—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 23, 1961
• Lead Feeding
(From page 1)
Charles Craig, Nottingham
R 2, has about- 170 cows in
production. When he began
the lead feeding program a
bout the middle of October
he found his herdsman was
feeding the cows in the late
stages of lactation more grain
than they needed in an effort
to keep production from fal
ling off Some were being
forced to rob their own bod
ies of the nutrients needed
to make the milk.
How did Craig get into the
lead feeding program? What
does he think of it? The first
thing this young, energetic
dairyman did when we sat
down around his kitchen ta
ble was to open his Dairy
Herd Improvement herd
book.
In answer to the last ques
tion first, he said, I am not
milking any more cows now
than I Was in October, but
the milk production went up
from 1,800 pounds per day
to 2,500 pounds of milk a
day on one farm. “And it’s
not costing any more’’ he
said.
Craig said he felt this was
a good year to try heavy
grain feeding because this
was a good grain year.
“I knew my cows ought to
be milking better ” he said,
“But I didn’t know just
what the trouble was.’’ A
neighbor, Harry Wilson, was
feeding some of his higher
producers as much as 25 or
26 pounds of grain a day,
Craig said, and production
was higher than it had ever
been.
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In a - trouble-shooting ses
sion with Paul (Pete) How
ard of the Quarryville branch
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Exchange Cooperative, Craig
decided to try ajprogram of
additional grain feeding
On the advice of Howard,
he increased both protein
content and amount of feed
to cows in early and middle
stages of lactation and notic
ed an immediate increase in
production. The herd averag
age jumped from 793 lbs. of
milk and 31 pounds of but
terfat in October to 877 lbs.
of milk and 35 pounds of fat
per cow in November.
Craig, cited examples of
three individual cows in the
herd to show the increase.
Cow number one made 37 1
pounds of fat during the
month ending 117 days of
her lactation. She made 40 7
pounds during the month
ending her 147th day of
milking. Cow number four
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went from 41.2’ lbs. at' 115
days to 46.7 pounds on the
145th day. Cow seven gained
from 44.9 at 116 days to 49.3
pounds at 146 days.'
“And the cows near the
end of their lactation did not
drop when we cut back_on
their feed ” Craig said.
Just how does the lead
feeding program operate?
Pete Howard explained it
this way. “You begin by giv
ing the cow a six to eight
week dry period. She needs
the proper rest to rebuild her
body, mammary glands, and
body weight, and produce
a healthy calf. You have to
determine the cow’s expected
peak of production in her
coming lactation by studying
her former lactation records,
her probable inherited abili
ty and her type potential”.
The next step is to calcu
late the amount of grain
needed, with the available
forage, to produce at that
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•creasing the amount of feed is, are produced when the
by one pound every day un- cow must convert body fat
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“It is false economy to fat- While the program is rela
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period and expect her to use dairymen- who have tried it
body-fat during her milking appear to be convinced that
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