ASS—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, May S, 1984
Dairy water
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was recommended, particularly
roughage.”
“And, we were having some
mortality problems in young
calves,” Ken Stoner added.
The water conditioning system
treats the water for the entire
farm, which is spring-fed from a
single source. It treats the water
for all stock, about 190 head with
milkers, replacements and bulls
raised for breeding sale.
Prior to its installation, the herd
average would climb to about
17,000 lbs. and hover around that
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level. Last year’s top average was
19,400 lbs., which has since
dropped back to 18,200, primarily
because last year’s silage crop was
affected by the drought.
“Our herd average had been
moving up so we can’t say exactly
what can be attributed to the water
conditioning,” Ken Stoner said.
“But we’re sure it was a factor
and our calf health problems have
cleared up.”
Martin cites an example of
another farm where the milking
herd was cut from 87 to 81 cows and
the farmer finds about 1,000 lbs.
more milk in the tank for every
pickup.
The testing procedure has also
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