Partial diet can help solve cow health problems

摘要

Mastering dairy cow diets can seem like a fine art. Get it right and your herd will benefit from high milk yields and good health; get it wrong and there will be a plethora of issues to deal with. But it is possible to balance nutrition and costs. Cornish farmer Mark Button is managing to strike the right balance with a partial DCAB diet, maximising productivity while also curbing costs.Mr Button switched to a partial DCAB diet with a calcium binder in 2014, and has seen excellent results with his 940 Holstein cows.