Our new nutritionists, Aaron Park and Steve Fitzner have us on the right track. In fact we did so good today that our bulk tank overflowed and milk ran on the floor! A much better problem to have!
We have been through a lot on the farm in the last 6 weeks. We changed our nutritionist once and that didn't work out for us. Our production dropped 20 pounds of milk a day per cow! Do the math on that with 120 cows and $20 per cwt milk. We lost a small fortune in one short month.
Recently I figured out I was losing even more. My cows quit cycling! No cows in heat means no cows getting bred. No calves and no milk follows that. That put a big drop in our success rate for artificial insemination, but it is all better now and we will recover.
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