Seasonal tools such as the spring rotation planner, the grass wedge and autumn budget (e.g., available from www.teagasc.ie; www.dairynz.co.nz) use the farmers data from his/her weekly grass measurement to provide information on grass availability, surpluses and deficits, and provide ...
The total number of cattle in Avangard LLC at the time of the study was 1968 milking cows, 274 dry cows and 1467 calves. For the given experiment, we selected 60 lactating Holstein cows of the second lactation with the average milk yield of 34.16 ± 0.45 kg, days in milking (DIM) = ...
Efforts to reduce walking distance and time spent away from the paddock are likely to provide cows with greater opportunity to engage in daily behaviours in the paddock that meet their needs and maintain their milk yield. Keywords: milking time; time budget; animal welfare ...