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weight, Adams believes.
Generally high butterfat
associated with high
forage consumption, but it
sometimes pays to feed lower
quality hay hay with a lar
ger amount ot fiber
slow" down the feed in the
cow’s digestive tract.
With the stress on high
glam feeding in the past few
jeais, Adams said many
dairymen believe they can cut
back on the amount of forage
and make up the nutritional
difference with giam
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Adams says the protein con
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go as high as 25 or 30 per
cent when corn silage makes
up most ot the forage ration
When corn silage is used
pumarily to replace hay and
a pretem deficiency exists,
the butteifat content mil be
adversely atfected because the
digestabihty of the forage is
lessened.
Most Cows Underfed
The Penn State researcher
said he believes 90 per cent
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of the dairy cows in the state
are underfed at the present
time.
“We know that the average
cow in Pennsylvania produces
somewhere near 8,000 pounds
of milk per year, and we have
leasons to 'believe that the
aveiage cow in the state is
capable of making near 12,-
000 pounds. Most of this dif
feience is due to improper
feeding ” Adams said.
But milk pioduction is not
always immediately cut if
cows aie undeifed In many
instances, the cow vv ill con
tinue to make milk, but il
she is not being fed sufficient
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nutnemts, the butterfat con
tent of the milk will be low
eied.
What happens in such cas
es, he explained is that cows
take body* fat oft and turn it
into butterfat This increases
the blood fat content and may
cause a temporary boost m
butterfat, but unless the cow
is fed sufficient nutrients to
lay down model ate amounts
of fat on hei body, milk fat
content w ill suffer.
Aioid both thin or oiei
conditioned cows, since a fatt\
cow also tends to pioduce
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West Willow
milk with low fat content
A few yeais ago, Adams
said, some local daily men
puichased Canadian Holstems,
but they were disappointed
when the cows didn’t test any
better than the cows they al
leadv had, this was mainly
because they didn’t feed them
any difteieut than they' ted
then othei cows In Canadi,
for most pait, the cows weie
on a high forage muon
As one final woi d of cau
tion, Adams it old dan > max
that pool lentilation is one of
the majoi causes ot light foi-
age consumption He said cows
must he encouiaged to eat
laige amouii'ts ot forage but
most of the so called ifoiage
evtendeis cannot he considei
ed in meeting forage needs.
He said while ha> is scaice,
it is one of the lequnemeins
for satisfactom Inuteifat le\-
els m the milk
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