Power Supply and rest, what is their connection with their feet?
As for power I do not care to enter into the rationing but it's interesting to point out some general considerations, very important, which are often neglected and with the balance ration in the strict sense not to do.
What else can be important part, if not specifically talk about rationing?
important are these issues: the quality of ingredients and in particular the quality of the ration offered to the heifer, perseverance and the monotony of the ration throughout the year, and the rest given to the animals.
quality of the ration
The first thing is that that "we are what we eat" also applies to animals. Food provides the building blocks for the body and a building constructed with inferior materials on weak foundations, however beautiful it may be, will not last long. Similarly, if we consider the feet as the pillars of the cows, we realize that an animal with feet ruined by a poor diet will have a life (production) and short little profiqua.
The second consideration, more than a veterinarian, is a chef (the kitchen is one of my two hobbies) and is the "law" of remediableness not the individual ingredients : if an element of your preparation (stew with vegetables or forage for the cows) is damaged or of poor quality, when mixed with other ingredients, at best will not do any harm but certainly lower the final level of your preparation.
Surely the ingredient of poor quality is not ennobled by the presence of other ingredients, nor even disappears. The ingredient of poor quality, short, should be used with caution or eliminating altogether: on the contrary should not be used in large quantities or given to the heifers, "because they are so young and strong and are not yet in production"! Sooner or later, the animals will have to produce young and strong and we want to remain healthy. Give birth, change group, redefine the hierarchy and are already starting to produce a beautiful and stress the animals need to be in good shape to deal with these changes. Remember that the heifer now is the cow of the future, if she is forced to food of poor quality before going into production, you can not expect a long career with no problems. Today
fact that the problems most commonly encountered are not so much caused by improper rationing per se, but rather are caused by 'raw materials of little or no quality. In case this is not the fault of the recipe but the ingredients. To close this section let me remind you that the beef is at a loss (eating resources without adding anything) until 1 birth, when that goes into production. The balanced budget you will have at best the end of the first lactation. You start to earn income from the second lactation, at which time the animal body should complete its development and give the best in terms of productivity. Lactations more easily be able to do, the more you make that animal (longevity = + production efficiency gain). It seems clear that keeping good heifers is the best investment in the future.
Constance and monotony of the ration
Cows are more habitual of a postal worker. The ideal life of a cow is a comfortable life and boring. From all points of view, even the food. Once you set up a ration ingredients with an excellent or good, this should be kept as constant as possible. It is you who should adapt and adjust the marketing needs of your animals and do not try to force them to yours. And there's a reason for that. You have to keep it in mind that feed the cow rumen bacteria and food means that you, through what we throw inside, they influenced the type and metabolism. These visitors are essential for the animal digest it for him starches such as cellulose, provide through their metabolic volatile fatty acids are essential for the production of meat or milk and provide essential amino acids and vitamins through their very presence. In short, are the best friends of your animals and as such you must treat them with kid gloves. About the digestion of starch: the cows are not termites (the only ones able to digest lignin). Lignin "crusting" making it indigestible cellulose by bacteria that give the grass a very woody BIIIP just makes more (ie, produce more manure ago)!
And what can we do for them? Maintaining the internal environment of the rumen constant during all hours of the day and during all year. Bacteria in fact live within the limits of temperature and pH (acidity) are very narrow. Varying these factors will also vary the type of bacteria. To maintain a constant temperature of the rumen of course thinks the cow but the pH affects their feeding.
provides a blend that prevents the animals to choose from, keeping it as constant as possible over time and avoid sudden changes stabilizes rumen fermentation and, consequently, the pH of keeping our friends bacteria. Rationing is constancy in almost (quasi!) more important than quality of the food itself. In fact, the animals still have the ability to adapt and studies in America have shown better production performance in animals subjected to rationing with poor diets (intndiamoci: do not crap), but very consistent, compared to animals fed with rations of good quality but that they were under great changes over time.
Rest and digestion
Rest is crucial not only for the health of the feet, even for the proper digestion of food. In this regard, I strongly suggest you read an article recently appeared in "dairy barns" Supplement No. 3 / 2009 of "the informant livestock" entitled " hygiene and rest the foundations of health podal " I opinion article was wonderful, very clear, not at all difficult, all professionals in the field should read and keep. Below I give an extract of some points related to my speech.
" ... The first goal that a farmer should avere è quello di riuscire a dare alle proprie vacche almeno 12 ore di ripposo in cuccetta. Tale obbiettivo è altamente remunerativo per l'allevamento. Da un lavoro recentemente svolto è emerso che per ogni ora di riposo in più che si riesce a ottenere per le proprie vacche oltre le 7 ore, si ottengono 0,9 litri di latte in più di produzione giornaliera ( !!! )... infatti nei momenti di riposo il flusso di sangue aumenta del 28%. Essendo ogni litro di latte prodotto dalla filtrazione di 500 L di sangue a livello della mammella, è chiaro che l'aumento del flusso sanguigno della bovina a riposo ha un efetto diretto sui livelli produttivi. Ma non solo. L'aumento del riposo incrementa la ruminazione complessiva maigliorando the digestive efficiency of the animal and the rumen pH ( ed, more rumination = more production = better buffer effect of saliva ), decreases continuously improving the health of the animal standing breech delivery by reducing the number of mammary infections. .. "
Once set these posts take a look at the relationship they have with the lameness: Once again I will refer to Article mentioned earlier.
problems as too many food grains, fodder chopping excessive, inadequate food management, incorrect balance of concentrates and forages on rumen pH involved increasing the acidity: the increase of acidity may cause the rapid death of large numbers of rumen bacteria. Same effect can occur in case of diseases such as mastitis, metritis and retained placenta: in fact, these diseases are released into the body of toxins active particularly at circolazone capillary. And guess where there are vast networks capillaries? Exactly! Just feet.
The vast capillary networks of the feet are appointed to nourish the living that makes the horn. When you bleed do not get oxygen and nutrients in adequate quantities, it enters a state of suffering and how each body on fire as well as being painful (the cows can move as "eggs") are not effectively fulfill the task of producing nail of good quality. The nail on the contrary will be much more fragile and will undergo cracking easily and diseases of all kinds. If you add to this support by improper nail not to overload too much draw and stay up, you're served and lameness.
An example to clarify the concept. If we have a car with brand new tires (balanced and proper diet) and make only a few kilometers (adequate rest) on paved roads only (rational structures for the cows) the risk of boring (lame) is minimal and the repairs ( podologic intervention) is cheap and above all sustainable. If instead we have a car with the tires off the canvas maybe convergence with which we expect to make hours of off-road we can expect some more drilling and could not take with the tire if the repair is expensive and short lived.
should now be clear that, as a draw, even if taken individually feed and rest are necessary to ensure the health of the foot but not sufficient. The only tie is not omnipotent as some would expect or like some farmer podiatrist swears it is. If not supported by proper environmental management and food reveals more than a patch to the problem: maybe you are unable to contain and limit the phenomenon of lameness but always on a temporary basis without having a real structural improvement. Likewise the solo riposo non è uno strumento sufficiente se gli animali ad esempio hanno i piedi devastati e resi “fragili” dalla laminite. Per fare dei reali miglioramenti bisogna curare tutti questi aspetti contemporaneamente, pena veder frustrate le nostre aspettative
