UNIVERSITY PARK - Many dairy fanners carefully control rations for milking animals, but neglect to do the same for dry cows and springing heifers. Rations for dry cows, particularly during the last 2 to 3 weeks prior to freshening, greatly influence health and production at calving and during the critical early lactation period. Cows with disorders at freshening or in early lactation are more apt to become problem breeders and may produce less milk, depending on the types of problems encountered. To help prevent disorders at HARD WORK. LONG HOURS. FARMING'S NO CASY ROW TO HOF. FARMERS LIKE YOU DESERVE SPECIAL INTEREST. Hard work. Long hours. And days spend hoping it will ram Or won't Farming’s certainly not an easy row to hoe. That’s why we believe farmers like you deserve special interest. 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Vitamin A and E levels also may be depressed if cows and heifers are not on sup plementation, pasture or green chop during late gestation. Since a lack of these important nutrients can reduce disease resistance, special care must be taken to feed dry cows sufficient amounts of them. Although the concentrate requirement for dry cows is relatively low compared to that of milking cows, their needs for some nutrients are close to those of milk cows. Thus, the concentrate for non-milking animals may require higher levels of supplementation than for milk cows, to ensure adequate vitamins A and E, as well as the appropriate selenium status, injectable preparations may be used at drying off or at least 3 to 4 weeks prior to expected calving. Five ml of MuSe can be administered to provide selenium and vitamin E, and one to two million units of vitamin A can be given in an injectable ADE preparation. Vitamin A intertables are of greater importance when feeding primarily hay or com silage and should not be needed when the animals have been on good pasture recently. Manure for dry cows and heifers should be frequently observed. Constipation or feces that are too hard indicate that the diet is low in protein and minerals or that water intake is too low. Making certain that dry cows are fed adequate amounts of forage will also reduce constipation. LIKE NEW
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