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A comparison of daily and alternate day feeding of a complete diet to dairy cows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

C.J.C. Phillips  and
M.I. Rind
C.J.C. Phillips
Affiliation:
School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor Gwynedd LL57 2UW (UK)
M.I. Rind
Affiliation:
School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor Gwynedd LL57 2UW (UK)
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Cows are usually fed forage or a mixed complete diet with an automatic delivery feed wagon daily. The feeding is a laborious and time consuming task, however such a load can be reduced by alternate day feeding of cows (Wallace and Parker, 1966; Owen, 1987; Leaver, 1990). Refusals may be collected when more then ten percent of fresh supply. The objective of this study was to compare daily with alternate day feeding of complete diet to dairy cows.

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Cattle Nutrition & Production
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 1995 , March 1995 , pp. 144
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 1995

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