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The effects of level of winter feeding and buffer-feeding during the grazing season on the milk production of January/February calving dairy cows.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2017

C.S. Mayne ,
S.C.P. Woodcock  and
A.J. Clements
C.S. Mayne
Affiliation:
Animal and Grassland Research Institute, Permanent Grassland Department, North Wyke, Okehampton, Devon, EX20 2SB
S.C.P. Woodcock
Affiliation:
Animal and Grassland Research Institute, Permanent Grassland Department, North Wyke, Okehampton, Devon, EX20 2SB
A.J. Clements
Affiliation:
Animal and Grassland Research Institute, Permanent Grassland Department, North Wyke, Okehampton, Devon, EX20 2SB
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Buffer-feeding of grazing dairy cows, by allowing cows access to forage for a few hours each day, has been widely advocated as a means of maintaining high animal performance whilst enabling efficient sward utilization. However, in practice, responses to buffer-feeding with January/February calving cows have been extremely variable. The objective of this study was to examine if part of the variability in response could be explained by differences in the level of nutrition during the winter feed period.

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Dairy Cow Nutrition
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1987 , March 1987 , pp. 29
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1997

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