Individual feeding
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
LEBANON When a
milking herd average jumps
a whopping 23 percent from
one year to another, there’s
got to be a reason behind
such a production
achievement.
Charles Heffelfmger and
his mother, Pauline, who
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operate a dairy farm off Rt.
343, just north of Lebanon,
experienced just such a
noteworthy production hike
and attribute the increase to
individual attention to
feeding.
In 1978, the herd average
was 14,355 lbs. of milk and
530 lbs. of fat.
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is key to 23%
In 1979, these herd figures
jumped to 17,672 lbs. of milk
and 647 lbs. of fat.
That’s an mcrease of 3,317
lbs. of milk, just over 23
percent, that won the Cedar
Crest Young Farmers
Association production
award for the largest herd
average milk mcrease.
NEW!
milk production hike
The Heffelfmgers credit a
change in their feeding
program as the reason for
the increase.
“Instead of feeding our
cows as a herd, we now treat
them as individuals,”
Charles explained.
The revised feeding
program matches
nutritional needs with in
dividual cow production.
DHIA records are now
closely followed, along with
feeding formulation
recommendations from their
Agway supplier.
All feed is now weighed
The milking cows get 4fl
pounds of silage once a day
along with 18 pounds of hay.
For those cows with more
than 50 lbs. of production, a
feeding ratio of one to two if
followed for com, oats and
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supplements. For every twc
lbs. of milk production, a
cow gets one pound of feed.
For cows producing less
than 50 lbs. of milk, a ratio of
one to three is followed.
“There’s just no doubt that
under the old uniform
feeding program, some cows
were getting too much feed
and others weren’t getting
enough,” Pauline explained.
She points to a 13-year-old
cow that was always thin
and crampy. Under the new
feeding program, the cow is
now better than she had ever
been. Her production in
creased from 13,329 lbs. to
19,937.
“That particular cow had
to be underfed before,” she
said.
The registered herd is
almost 100 percent home-
Shown in milk house of Heffelfinger farm, from
the left, are Audrey; her husband, Charles: and his
mother. Pauline.
grown,
“I bought only one cow last
March,” Charles said, “and
that has been the only out
side addition to the herd. ’ ’
Individual production
increases o£ 60 percent were
recorded by some of the
cows with the prefix
“Hefacres.”
Top producer is four-year
old Hefacres King Kurt
Kerry with 26,063 lbs. of milk
and 749 fat. On her previous
lactation, she produced
15,695 lbs. of milk and 433 fat.
That’s better than a 10,000-
lb. increase.
Kerry produced more than
100 lbs. for three months in a
row and peaked at 127 lbs.
“That was the first time in
26 years that we had a cow
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