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Consider the costs and benefits carefully before deciding to milk once-a-day (OAD) in early lactation. Recent research undertaken by DairyNZ has challenged views that short periods of OAD milking in early lactation have little effect on milksolids yield while improving cow reproduction. |
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OAD milking has become popular in early lactation to allow farmers
to get systems in place to manage springers, colostrum cows,
calves, animal recording, difficult weather conditions and a
shortage of labour during this time. These are valid reasons to
milk cows OAD in early lactation, however the DairyNZ research has
shown is that even short periods (3-6 weeks) of OAD milking has
significant milk production costs, with no effect on body condition
score (BCS) loss, or reproduction...Read More
DairyNZ advises farmers considering milking OAD in early lactation to be cautious and to consider the full affects of milking OAD in your farm situation carefully. OAD is an option in spring ... but it comes at cost.
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