TMR

When feeding milking cows you want to get the most milk out of them so you need the best rations and quality ingredients. At Innislake we feed a ration called T.M.R. (total mixed ration). The cows are fed twice a day with a mixture of ingredients that have been arranged by a nutritionist to balance the ration for how ever many cows you are milking. Silage is the main roughage that goes in, the 3 types are a majority of barley silage, and than corn silage and haylage are also added to the mixer wagon. We also add some gaulity 2^nd cut hay along with rolled barley and 40% supplement pellets. Many people believe that dairy cows are very skinny but that’s not true. A dairy cow eats on average 50 pounds of dry matter and compared to a beef cow they eat less than half of the dairy cow so around 20 pounds on average. The difference is that most of the energy from the food intake of a dairy cow cows into milk production were dairy farmers get there money. The energy the beef cow gets goes to producing body fat because this is how beef producers make their money. Even though dairy cows look way smaller they do eat a lot more!   

At the end of summer the pit will be full and 4 bags of silage as well for the winter!