Some mild hating on the dairy industry here. Let's set things out then. It is in the best interests of any working dairy (or anyone looking to get milk from a cow on a regular basis) that the cows be as healthy as possible. That involves regular freedom of movement, clean and safe areas of shelter, adequate water, and as demonstrated in this video, proper food. On top of all this, regular veterinary services are included to keep the cows strong. When the video says 'byproducts', generally it means things that are trash to humans because we can't use or eat them...but cows can. There are a lot of things cattle can eat that would do us no good at all. For instance, cotton seed. It's no good to us since we can't digest it. Likewise with silage. Silage is generally the grass portion of grains we can't eat. Almond shells....have any of you tried to eat one? Yet cows gain fiber from it that our bodies can't proces. A final word about this process as opposed to grazing 'on the range' as it were; This setup is far better from the perspective of the cows than 'free range grazing.' 1. The diet is more consistent, and overall, more balanced. 2. It's easier to check on the health of the herd at any given time, as needed. 3. There are a lot of things NOT in this arrangement that could harm/kill the cows, like coyotes, prairie dog holes, snakes...and there would be no way to know anything happened until the body is found. If you're going to watch a video about things you have no direct experience with, have the common sense to realize there's something to learn here. A dairy farm gains nothing from harming, abusing, or injuring their cows.
Great Video Jason, Interesting obviously these cows never leave the barn! There were some pretty expensive ingredients being dumped on the concrete, thanks for sharing
Thank you for sharing. With exception of whey this one is very, very similar to rations cows eat in Central Russia. What is the DM and starch content of silage?
@@jasonmast4815 beautiful goals! We had a massive issue with proper understanding of "good corn silage" definition for a while, but the most of reasonable people try to achieve 30-35 DM and 35-45 starch now. Numbers aside the goal is to get maximal by-pass fraction while maintaining proper digestibility, of course.
I think this video is to fool the farmers.if so many ingredients are given to the animals simultaneously then the cost will exceed the profit and dairy will ultimately fail.
if milk rate cross to dollar we can manage dairy very easily in Pakistan. but all ingredients available in our country but little expensive. thanks for share nice one.
That load is for the high cows and they actually get fed three times a day. The tractor works pretty hard, but it’s made over 20,000 hours turning that mixer!
most dairy farms take samples of all their feed, say hay - silage - corn and so on,, and send to laboratorys that measure the feed value. so that the farm, and ore the feed expert can create different TMR mixes depending on which cycle the cows are in.. IF you fed say a ration ment for a milking cow that give 100 pound of milk a day to a cow that had stopd produsing milk, you soon would end up with a SUPERFAT COW THAT COULDNT WALK. 😁 So many-most farms usually make several batches each feeding usually at least 2 one milk cow tmr with a lot of nutrients-protein++ like i the video while dry cows manage with mostly only silage-hay-straw and a little bucket of minerals-salt and if they have calfs they mix a growing ration, and so on.
As seen in the video: Alfalfa Hay Straw Cotton seed Canola pellets DDGS Bakery Mineral Wet Corn Gluten Corn silage Wheat silage Almond Hulls Rolled corn Whey Water
John Sullivan this load is for a select stage of lactation, the highest producing cows. It’s feeds about 400 cows three times a day, but the total volume per feeding varies based on the level of refusal from previous feedings.
Jason Mast 1000 milk cows you say, Cool!! I have to check out the dairies out there in Turlock someday. Do you have Instagram? Maybe we can chat on there sometime 👍🏼
crumb9cheese this is a complete and balanced meal for these cows. There is nothing wrong with grass, but this is far more efficient in our area due to the lack of available land for grazing.
Is that not more expensive to what "normal" dairy farms would feed their cows? Do you get more money for feeding them or what is the purpose? (I am not a farmer just curious😉) Great video🖒
echt deutsch pasture isn’t practical in California on a large scale due to the high cost of land and water. The hay and silage are much more efficient to produce and the byproducts are a great way to improve sustainability of the dairy industry. This ration is fine tuned to meet the cattle’s exact needs.
Nedim Maksumic yes, I re-uploaded this because the original had issues that I wasn’t able to correct. Some of the still photos should actually show up now.
Corn silage and alfalfa hay would be ideal, but this is all about using surplus available ingredients to extend the inventory of limited premium forages. In California corn silage and alfalfa can be expensive and difficult to source at times. There are lots of other unconventional options that can be used by a nutritionist to make a high quality balanced TMR.
I grew up on a dairy, and horse farm, and if someone tried to give this crap to our cow or horses my dad would reached for the horse whip. No wonder our milk tastes strange, what the fuck would prompt a farmer to use ground up straw as an additive! Cows and horses can not digest straw, and don't get me started on the corn silage. You can go into any corn field and find undecomposed corn stalks from the previous year's harvest. So to summarize, how the fucking hell will a chopped corn stalks break down in an animals stomach. Word. They don't!!!!! On the farm the cows spent all day eating good green grass, and when they came to the barn to be milked they would get a coffee can of a mixture of cracked corn, oats, and hint of molasses for taste. And let me tell you we had the sweetest milk and cream in the county. So to finish, I wouldn't give this farmers milk to pig, well maybe if it were mixed with some cracked corn, but I sure as hell wouldn't drink it on a bet!! What the cow eats comes through in the milk, dumb ass!! Anybody that has grown up on a farm knows that from the early age when you first stepped in a cow pie barefoot!!
I milked cows for 45 years. The only true balanced mixed ration is a cow eating grass !!!! No equipment needed other then a four wheeler to get the cows home and a basic mower to clip the pastures..and of course any other equipment needed in farming. Cheap simple and basic. Moreover "" profitable " !
I was reading about a place in the US that fed their cows ground up cow crap and cardboard. A guy with a drone investigating and as almost arrested by the local law enforcement after the owner reported him.
Douglas Oakley I find it highly unlikely that any dairy in the US is feeding ground up cow manure and cardboard. That would never pass a creamery audit. If that were the case they should be shut down for animal abuse. Dairy producers are paid for the quantity and quality of the milk their cows produce, It is important for cows to be well fed, they do not produce milk if they are unhealthy and fed garbage.
I think this video is to fool the farmers.if so many ingredients are given to the animals simultaneously then the cost will exceed the profit and dairy will ultimately fail.
TMR...... its where you can put all your junk feed.....spoiled and rotten. The large bunkers have major spoilage..and it goes somewhere !! Expect the cows to eat it.....blend it in.
Irv Farmer that’s actually not true at all. Silage in bags and all other feed stored dry under roofs makes for incredible feed quality. Sorry, but there isn’t enough pasture to be able to provide the world with milk and meat.
@@jasonmast4815 If there is not enough pasture...then what do cows eat other then grass or hay ? There is plenty of land for feeding cows. After all.......that is what they eat.
