Lactating Cow Feeding
Introduction
The comprehensive Barastoc range includes dairy feeds with varying energy and protein levels to supplement your homegrown feeds. Apart from the high specification mineral, vitamin and trace element pack included in our dairy feeds, additional mineral and medicinal additives are available on request to meet your herd’s specific requirements.
Pelleted dairy feed offers a number of advantages over loose mixes:
- Reduced separation and selection of ingredients, which means less dust in the milking shed. This is particularly important when additives such as rumen modifiers are included in the feed.
- Consistent nutrient content because pellets are formulated to a fixed nutritional specification.
- Easy diet changes; as forage quality and quantity varies, simply switch to a different product as required.
- No additional processing, handling, storage or labour requirements associated with a single product purchase, unlike the situation when ingredients are home-mixed.
The Barastoc range of lactating cow pellets is designed to achieve high performance, health and fertility by balancing the ration across a range of different feeding situations.
Each formulation can be matched to pasture circumstances to ensure your cows receive sufficient energy, protein, vitamins and minerals to sustain high levels of production despite seasonal variations in available pasture and quality.