How to feed pregnant cows

How to feed pregnant cows

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The wrong feeding of a cow during pregnancy becomes frequent the reason of a heavy otel, the birth of a weak calf, low efficiency in the period of a lactation. The pregnant animal has to receive enough nutrients, minerals and vitamins.

Menu of a stylish cow

The milk cow, depending on the weight and efficiency, eats up to 30 kg of forages in day. KRS – ruminants, form the basis of their diet: hay, senazh, straw, in the summer – a pasturable grass. As fertilizing they are given root crops, pumpkin, a silo, compound feed or zernosmes: 1/3 oats and 2/3 barley.

During pregnancy of the menu of Burenkas needs adjustment. Pregnancy lasts 40−41 weeks, especially crucial moment – start when the cow is stopped being milked. The period of a dead wood lasts 50−60 days, during this time the organism of future "mom" has a rest, gains strength, is preparing for an otel.

Normal development of a fruit requires increase in quantity of a protein forage, providing an organism with A, D vitamins, carotene, mineral substances. In the first months of stylishness there is laying of the main bodies at a fruit therefore it is so important to provide a uterus with full-fledged sterns in sufficient volume. The lack of carotene will be filled by carrots of 1 kg and pine powder of 0.5 kg. Calcic fertilizing is necessary: swept 80−100 g, bone meal of 50 g. Give cake and bran, they are rich with phosphorus. The obligatory product – salt, is on sale in briquettes.

Quantity of forages

Feed with KRS three times a day, it is recommended to give: − hay from long-term herbs of 8−15 kg, a part it it is possible to replace with straw; − tubers and pumpkin of 10−15 kg; − fodder grain of 2−3 kg. It is impossible to feed the frozen or begun to rot root crops. The mouldy, damped hay is inadmissible in a diet. In the first 2−3 weeks of start reduce norm melon, a silo, limit an amount of water. Do not release summer of cows on a pasture, replace green material with hay. It becomes with the purpose to reduce development of milk, then again bring feeding to norm. Completely exclude crude potatoes from a diet, starch fills dairy canals. In the period of a dead wood (last two months) the calf gains weight therefore the cow is well fed, but are not overfed. To childbirth she has to have good fatness. An indicator of healthy nutrition is increase in weight in the period of a dead wood for 10%. The diet affects composition of colostrum that is important when feeding newborn calfs. One week prior to an otel exclude juicy forages from a diet, animals are given hay, senazh. It is possible to vypaivat "talker" from tired hay dust and bran. Give to drink to a stylish cow the pure, slightly warmed up water, cold drink can provoke an abortion.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team

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