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Thornbury. Kleinschmidt designed a
new ration that makes use of the their
own corn silage, second cut haylage,
apple pomace, corn screenings
(mostly cracked corn), distillers
grains, some of their own barley, a
supplement to balance the ration and
a small amount of dry hay to balance
the wet pomace.
The result "has worked fantastic,"
Fisher says. Kleinschmidt designed
different rations for the high
producing and lower producing
groups which are kept on opposite
sides of the barn.
The milk production began not
just to recover, but reach new
heights. Now with the extra cows, his
old milk tank, which he'd brought
from the other barn with the
expectation it would be large enough
for another year or so, was too small
and a new tank had to be installed.
Now they had to go buy quota for
another 15 cows. They are now
actually feeding fewer cows and
keeping their feed costs about the
same as before. Kleinschmidt has
since designed another ration to take
their high producing cows to the next
level.
And
so, life has finally settled
into something of a pattern
for the Fishers. "Everybody
says you've got to go through a year
or two to get things working and if it
keeps going as good I'll be very
happy." Alan and Tom share the
chores, one milking and one feeding.
With the convenience of the new
barn, the work with the milking herd
can be accomplished quickly and the
biggest amount of work is still in the
old barn, looking after the dry cows
and calves.
The TMR is heaven compared to
the old barn where they were feeding
grain three and four times a day,
Fisher says. Now they feed once a
day. They mix one TMR load for
each group of the high performing
and lower performing cattle.
The natural ventilation with the
warmer weather makes the barn "just
beautiful" with the curtains down, he
says.
The old barn was warmer in
winter and he could work in his
shirtsleeves but it wasn't good for the
cows, he says. The new bam is kept
at 45-50 degrees F.
Despite the fact he didn't want to