THE RIGHT FEED TABLE FOR EACH STAGE OF LACTATION

If you multiplied the number of robot manufacturers by the number of robot farms and the number of nutritionists, you might have an approximation of the number of ways to control pellet feeding in a robot barn. There are a lot of ways, and they don’t all involve feed tables. If feed tables are used, the most basic variable is whether the table is controlled by days-in-milk or milk-yield. A days-in-milk feed table adjusts robot feed according to how long a cow has been milking. A milk-yield feed table adjusts robot feed according to how much milk she is making. Each has a time and a place. Here is an overview of how to use days-in-milk, and milk-yield feed tables at different stages of lactation.

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