High yielder nutrition

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Permalink Reply by Dr Sunil Yadav on October 18, 2009 at 12:49am

According to my experiance we can add some buffering agent for maintenance of rumen pH & also addition of good live yeast culture.

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Permalink Reply by mahesh ahlawat on October 18, 2009 at 2:16pm

can u named some of the buffuring agents available????????????

Dr Sunil Yadav said:

According to my experiance we can add some buffering agent for maintenance of rumen pH & also addition of good live yeast culture.

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Permalink Reply by Dr. Amit Arora on October 19, 2009 at 9:59am

Sod. bicarbonate is a good buffering agent. Apart from that bentonites do have role, caco3 could also be useful. MgO again has cation exchange action which helps in acid neutralization. A combination of sod. bicarb and magnesium oxide works well in acidosis.

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Permalink Reply by Dr. Tanveer Ahmad on November 10, 2009 at 9:39pm

I think addition of Ionophores is an other way to sustain intake.

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Permalink Reply by Sergio Vaiani on January 19, 2010 at 4:41am

Normally 100-120 gr. x cow x day of sodium bicarbonate are enought. You can also work with 1% of calcium in the total diet, and add 50 gr. of MgO.
In any case a 50/50 forgage concentrate, if you are usin part of the forage like raygrass (with a great rumination efficiency) doesn't cretae problems of acidosis

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Magadi on February 24, 2010 at 4:35am

First of all I am concerned that you want to enhance the level of concentrate feeding when in fact that will affect rumen condition, alter the micro-flora population and render fibre less digestible. That kind of practice goes against the principle of taking advantage of the symbiotic relationship that exists between the host animal and the rumen bacteria to produce milk and meat.

If you have access to supplements with protected fats, amino acids and soluble sugars, you can in fact feed more roughage and benefit from optimal rumen digestion. That way, you still achieve higher yields from the supplements that are more efficiently utilised in the lower gut.

Should the above not be a viable option then you may consider feeding rumen buffers, thoroughly mixing the concentrates and roughage and offering the feed continuously.

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