Program Highlights Dairy Cow Reproduction, Nutrition NEW HOLLAND (Lancaster Co.) A dairy day seminar held at Yoder’s Restaurant in New Hol land last week' featured several experts on dairy reproduction and nutrition. The seminar was sponsored by Agri Basics Inc., a consortium of 10 independent dairy farm consul tants who offer feed and soil services. The business of independent dairy nutrition consultants and also a soils specialist started in March 1989 in order to allow the mem bers to offer clients tailored ser vices available through the team, according to Kurt Umble, presi dent of the board. The seminar offered a number of speakers not connected to the business and display area for com mercial exhibitors at the restaurant facility. Umble said that since he and his partners started the business, they felt it was important to offer educa- 19 More Reasons Why you should buy Big Dutchman from Hershey Equipment NEW CONSTRUCTION OR REMODEL WORK 1. Big Dutchman and Hershey Equipment is #1 in owner loyalty. More people buy Big Dutchman when they remodel than any other system. 2. Our Profit-tier system adapts to your old building. 3. Re-use your old comers to save money. 4. Big Dutchman’s superior suspension system keeps the cages from sagging between stands. Competitive sys tems sag. 5. Lower maintenance-costs. Talk to our customers - Then talk to theirs! 6. Better Performance! This isn’t just talk. Ask your feed company to show you records from a Big Dutchman sys tem to compare to a competitive system. 7. Big Dutchman high lip feed trough is designed to reduce spillage into the walkways. Look at a competitors walk way and measure the thickness of wasted feed. 8. Your old hoppers aren’t wore out. Save money and re use them on your new system. 9. We have our own installation crews to be sure the equip ment is properly installed. Competition hires outside crews, TT€RSH€V WKm I EQUIPMENT CO. lional seminars for their clients, rather than to hold promotional gatherings. One of the key speakers was James Furgeson, assistant profes sor of dairy research at University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton research center. Furgeson, of Honeybrook, had previously worked at Cornell Uni versity for three years and in the private sector for six. He discussed reproduction and the use of macro nutrients to increase the reproduc tive efficiency in dairy cattle. Also speaking was Mike O’Conner, Penn State University dairy extension specialist who dis cussed the latest information on the heat cycling of cows and how it relates to successful fertilization with artificial insemination, and Dr. Brian Reed, who discussed analysis of reproductive records. Furgeson said, “When you talk about milk production, you’re We < Taks Customer Satisfaction TersonaCCy really talking about reproductive efficiency." He explained that no matter how high a cow’s individual lactation production is, the key to maintain ing a strong year-in, year-out herd production is reliable quick turnar ound on lactation. The more days open, the less money can be made selling millT from the cow and the longer it takes for that cow to pay for herself. He said that research has shown that the lactation curves for cows of all levels of production are the same. That means that the only way to become more efficient is to work to achieve and maintain a herd standard of 11 to 13 months turnaround on lactations with each cow. “The first 100 days of lactation is when you are going to make half of the money on that cow that year,” he said. 10. Eggs move gently from the birds, to the belts and thru the collector unit The eggs are not like balls in a bowl ing alley as in some competitive systems. 11. Incredible! New left hand drive allows feed chain to travel up to 120 F.P.M. 12. Your present gearboxes and motors can be re-used to save monfcy. 13. The Big Dutchman chain feeder gives 2 'A times more feeder space than the grind auger. 14. It’s a proven fact. Chain feeder systems use less electricity. 15. Big Dutchman has a stronger cage, top and front than competitive cages. 16. The sliding door on a Big Dutchman system is easy to open and close and it stays closed. 17. The Big Dutchman collector is the best there is. Don’t accept an imitation. 18. Our cage design allows eggs to roll front and out of the cage, not get stepped on and cracked by birds as in com petitive cages. 19. Big Dutchman systems provides a bigger percentage of larger eggs for a longer period of time. SYCAMORE IND. PARK 255 PLANE TREE DRIVE LANCASTER, PA 17603 (717) 393-5807 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 26, 1992-ais „ -.itp> University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center, explains the relation ship of major nutrients to dairy cattle reproduction. 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