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Replacing grazing with a maize silage-based indoor diet for lactating dairy cows in autumn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

O. Hernandez-Mendo  and
J. D. Leaver
O. Hernandez-Mendo
Affiliation:
Imperial College, Wye, Ashford, Kent TN25 5AH, UK
J. D. Leaver
Affiliation:
Imperial College, Wye, Ashford, Kent TN25 5AH, UK
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Reducing the time available for grazing from 20h to 5h daily, and replacing this with access to a maize silage/soyabean meal diet indoors had no significant effect on milk yield in spring (Hernandez-Mendo and Leaver, 1999). Grazing conditions in autumn present additional problems of shorter daylength and accumulated herbage contamination. The objectives were to examine the production and behavioural responses of grazing dairy cows to reducing access to grazing and increasing access to a maize silage/soyabean meal diet offered indoors.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2001 , 2001 , pp. 195
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2001

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Hernandez-Mendo, O. and Leaver, J.D. 1999. Combining grazing with different periods of access to an indoor diet to alleviate high rates of decline in milk yield of dairy cows. Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science, p76.Google Scholar