Balage (Continued from Pago Cl 6) have optimal ranges of dry matter for the forage material to be harvested. The optimal range for balage is 40 percent to SO percent dry matter. 2. Every time you change silos or cuttings within a silo, your cows go slightly off-feed (sometimes a lot), and the result is often a slight drop in milk production for a day or two. Using balage from different bales that vary gready in dry mat ter and nutrient content is like feeding forage from a different silo or cutting day. It is critical to harvest forage as balage at the proper dry matter content (40 percent to 50 percent). Forage 'baled any wetter than that significandy increases the forma tion of higher levels of butyric acid during the fermentation process. Butyric acid is less palatable and of lower feed value. In addition, slime molds are more likely to form on wetter bales, leading to decreased intake by the cows. In contrast, balage that is too dry may not have enough moisture to ferment prop erly, leaving a material that is more vulnerable to spoilage, or that may result in heat damage in the core of the bale. When feeding by the bale, changes in forage dry matter can alter the nutrient amounts that you thought you were feeding to your cows. For example, let’s look at two 1,400-pound bales that will be fed to a group of SO cows. On a dry matter basis, each bale tests 16 per cent crude protein, but one bale is SO percent dry matter and the other is 40 percent On day one. the cows consume 16.8 pounds of dry mat ter per cow (840 pounds total) and 2.7 pounds of crude protein per cow from that forage. On day two. the cows consume 11.2 pounds of dry matter from the balage (560 pounds total), with only 1.8 pound s of protein. That is a wide varia tion in nutrient intake for high pro ducing cows, especially if the bal age is their only source of forage. 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