average amount of feed per cow with hay
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- Re: Average hay consumption. A cow needs about 3 per cert of its body weight in roughage a day, a 1000 lb cow needs 30 lbs of hay if it has no other source of roughage.
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Bales per cow per year? I personaly always figured around 25lbs of hay per day for a average size cow when i was putting up hay. Alot of that of course they can get if pasture is available/accessable. Multiply that by your number of cows x average days you actually have to feed.
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- However, if done properly, it is possible to maintain cows on a diet composed largely of corn with only a relatively small amount of hay (three to seven pounds per head per day) and one to two pounds of protein supplement.
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- cows can only eat a limited volume of feed if most of that feed is water milk production will never reach the very high levels achieved by the very best dairy farmers diets comprising of at least 50 % high quality lucerne hay provide the launching pad to achieve milk yields of 7000 10 000 litres per cow per annumf most of that feed is water milk production will never reach the very high levels achieved by the very best dairy farmers diets comprising of at least 50 % high quality lucerne hay provide the launching pad to achieve milk yields of 7000 10 000 litres per cow per annum
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Is your feed cost per cwt <$10? Your feed costs are $.10 per pound of dry matter for the milking cows and they eat 50 pounds of dry matter per day and produce 80 pounds of milk per cow per day. That equates to $5.50 per cow per day feed cost or $5.50 / .8 cwt.= $6.88 per cwt of milk in feed cost.But that is just for the milking cows. If we add $3.00 per head of average heifer feed cost per day and $3.00 per head for the dry cows, we have an additional $360.00 per day in feed costs.That adds an additional $5.63 per cwt in feed costs. $6.88 per cwt of milk in feed cost. But that is just for the milking cows. If we add $3.00 per head of average heifer feed cost per day and $3.00 per head for the dry cows, we have an additional $360.00 per day in feed costs. That adds an additional $5.63 per cwt in feed costs.
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- A: Cows will eat 2% of their body weight in hay per day in the winter. You can figure that you are going to need to feed hay around 150 days per year. If your cow weighs 1,200 pounds, she will need 24 pounds of good quality hay for 150 days.
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High quality grasses fit well in rations of high producing dairy cows Grass silage can produce as much milk per cow as alfalfa silage when rations are balanced. We observed no palatability problems with endophyte-free tall fescue. Milk production per cow is a major factor in determining dairy farm sustainability/profitability.
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- As an example, if it were determined the daily DM intake of a group of 1,200-pound (lb.) cows eating an average-quality hay was 24 lb., and that the hay consumed was 88% dry matter, we could calculate that these cows would consume about 27 lb. (24 lb. ÷ 0.88) per head per day on an as-fed basis.
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What Can You Feed Pregnant Cows? Hay, a staple of the cattle diet, is often fed to pregnant cows even if they have access to pasture. The average cow will eat between 20 and 30 pounds per day of good-quality hay such as alfalfa. You can supplement with haylage -- hay that has been chopped and bagged or otherwise stored until it begins to ferment, increasing its nutritional value.
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- Most dairy cows are milked two to three times per day. On average, a cow will produce six to seven gallons of milk each day. A cow that is milking eats about 100 pounds each day of feed, which is a combination of hay, grain, silage and proteins (such as soybean meal), plus vitamins and minerals. Farmers employ professional animal nutritionists to develop scientifically formulated, balanced and nutritious diets for their cows.
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- It has been estimated that when cows eat a feed ration containing 40 percent silage and 20 percent grain made from genetically engineered corn varieties, approximately 0.00042 percent of the animal’s total daily DNA intake would consist of genetically engineered DNA (Beever and Kemp 2000).
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- (45 kg) of grass a day. Hay-The average cow can eat about 35 lbs. of good hay a day when grass is not available. Grain-Corn, soybeans, wheat, barley or oats in any mixture are ground up and moistened with molasses to keep down the dust.
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ALFALFA FOR BEEF COWS Table 3 shows that the average Nevada grass hay falls short of. fulfilling the protein and energy needs of a 1000 lb. cow postpartum (right after calving). By feeding a. 50% grass hay, 50% alfalfa ration the protein requirements are met.
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Is alfalfa hay worth the price? Thus, if corn silage is worth $100 per ton of dry matter, alfalfa hay is worth $135 per ton of dry matter or $120 as-fed. As the milk:feed price ratio goes up, the value of alfalfa hay compared to corn silage becomes greater.At a milk:feed ratio of 2.5, alfalfa hay is worth $50 per ton of dry matter more. Consequently, if corn silage is worth $100, then alfalfa hay should be worth $150 per ton of dry matter ($135 as-fed).or example, at a milk:feed price ratio of 1.45 (June 2009 which was a record low), alfalfa hay is worth no more than $35 per ton of dry matter over the price per ton of corn silage (on a dry matter basis).
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Determining How Much Forage a Beef Cow Consumes Each Day Remember that of the 28.5 pounds of silage, 18.5 pounds is water and 10 pounds is silage. What Determines Daily Forage Intake There are a number of different factors that determine the daily intake of a cow.
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Selecting Quality Hay  for HorsesID-190 DMI of hay will vary from about 1.8% to 2.7% of body weight. cows will have a hay DMI of 2.5% of their body weight per day. feeding hay and this must be accounted for when calculating winter feed needs. stored bales would be expected to have about 7% wastage.
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- One trial showed that calves fed about 7 pounds of creep feed per day consumed about 50 percent less forage when fed corn and 40 percent less forage when fed soybean hulls. In the same study, forage intake was decreased by 12 percent when creep feed was limited to 1.5 pounds per day.his is usually done with the use of a creep gate, which is large enough for calves to enter the feeding area but too small to allow cows to pass. A lactating beef cow can supply only 50 percent of the nutrients a three-to four-month-old calf needs to maximize growth.
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Stretching Your Horse Hay Supply Most horse owners have noticed that the price of feed (both hay and grain) has increased. At a hay auction in Sauke Center, MN, the 10-year average for horse quality hay (101-125 relative feed value) is $100 a ton; however, this year (2013), that same hay is averaging $220/ton.lan ahead and know how much hay you need. Horses eat roughly 2 to 2.5% of their body weight in feed (hay plus grain) each day. For example, an average 1,000 pound horse will eat around 20 to 25 pounds of feed daily, plus water. Weighing the amount of feed offered will help to avoid over-feeding.
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Bales per cow per year? Figure about 25-30 lbs hay per cow per day of feeding season. Usually works out to be about 4 to 5 bales per head, bales are 4 X 5 round, outside stored, some oat hay, mostly Klein Grass, some coastal bermuda hay, some sudan hybrid cross hay.
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- A large round bale of hay weighing 2200 lbs (one ton) will feed a lactating 1800 lb cow for 30 days. When she's dry, the bale will last her for less than 50 days. As for the 1000 lb lactating momma, that 2200 lb bale will last her for 55 days. When she's dry, she will be on it for 88 days.
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How Much Feed Will My Cow Eat - Frequently Asked Questions 1 Cows will consume between 2.2% and 2.5% (during lactation it may be as high as 2.7%) of their body weight on a dry basis of a high quality feed.
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Determining How Much Forage a Beef Cow Consumes Each Day As an example, if the forage were 55% TDN and lactating cows on the average weigh 1,200 pounds, then it could be estimated that they would eat 28 (1200 pounds x 0.023) pounds of hay daily on a dry matter basis. If the hay were 88% dry matter, on an as-fed basis, cows would eat about 32 (28 pounds/.88) pounds daily. If there were 200 head of cows in the herd, it would take about 3.2 ton of this hay per day [(200 head x 32 lb/hd/da)/2000lb] not accounting for any waste.
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Determining How Much Forage a Beef Cow Consumes Each Day In comparison, corn silage will typically be about 70% TDN and lactating beef cows can easily consume 2.5% to 2.7% of their body weight on a dry matter basis of this feed. There are some thumb rules to help estimate daily feed intake of cows on a dry matter basis consuming forages of differing quality when they are either gestating or lactating.
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Determining How Much Forage a Beef Cow Consumes Each Day If the forage quality is average (TDN content between 52% and 59%), non-lactating cows will consume about 2.0% to 2.1.% and lactating cows about 2.3% of their body weight daily on a dry matter basis of this forage.
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Beagle Heat On average, your Beagle will have her first cycle when she is about 6 months old. However, this does vary with each dog. Some enter heat as early as 4 months and some enter as late as 15 months. It seems too early in the eyes of so many owners, however it can start this young and owners must be aware of what will happen and how to keep their dog safe. Note: If your Beagle is over 15 months old and has not had her first heat cycle, she should have a full and complete veterinarian checkup.
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Beef Talk: Cow Size â How Much More Does the Big Cow Eat? The total dry matter increase for the herd that weighs 355 pounds more on the average would be 6.5 pounds of dry matter (feed) per day per cow, or 780 pounds of feed per cow for the duration (120 days) of the summer confinement period.
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- A lactating cow (producing 20,000 lb of milk) will consume EACH year 5.7 ton of forage dry matter, 106 bushel of corn, 1400 lb of protein supplement, and 225 pounds of mineral/salt. If the cow stays in the herd for 3 lactations, multiply these last numbers by 3.