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Organization of normalized feeding and directional growing for repair heifers

The article reflects the long-term state of research on the heifers of Ukrainian black and white dairy cattle. Research aimed at obtaining high-performance group of dairy cows in farmrming conditions with regard to zonal characteristics of feed production technology and advanced economies of Western Europe. It should be noted that western technologies of milk production have drawbacks that should be considered when implementing them in our farms. These technologies use the type of concentrate feeding of cattle intended for the repair group. Typically, these farm cows eat bad food and use pasture, which is an obstacle in the purchase of cows and calves taking into account their high purchase price.

Food rules applicable in the practice of animal husbandry, animals expressing the total need for sustaining life, production and reproduction (formation of the fetus in females, sperm in males). Feeding animals by feeding standards is key to the effective use of feed and increased productivity of livestock. Excessive and inadequate feeding unhealthy animals makes damage to the economy. Based on the stern rules of planning needs to feed livestock and evaluate the results of feeding. Compile a stern rules, summarizing data science and business studies and animal feeding practice in advanced economies.

To feed cattle and use it for a long time we use bulky feed: green, silage, haylage, hay, roots or wastes (bagasse, molasses). This perspective is based on dairy cattle.

The problem of protein, mineral and vitamin nutrition can be solved by adding to the repair heifers concentrated standard feed the INTERMIKS KM concentrate based on soybean. It provides animals with all the mineral elements and vitamins necessary for proper growth, development and future milk production. High concentrations of selenium and vitamin E stimulate the growth of animal immunity, which significantly affects their health and performance.

The purpose of our work was to study the effect of feeding rations of repair in heifers soy concentrate INTERMIKS KM standard on the health of young animals and their use of nutritional diet.

The main advantages of Western feeding technology are additional shredding of bulky feed to the stems length of 0.3-0.5 mm and free access to feed table, composed of spread corn and additional concentrates in milking time. Thus, the type of concentrate feeding cows is positive, but at the same has disadvantages, especially in feeding repair heifers.

Thus, for dry cows, (30% or more) the duration of cattle effective use limits to three years. Top management of our technology can actively use cows for 5-6 or more years with barrenness no higher than 8%. Thus, the theoretical issue of adequate young cattle feeding for repair herds, especially high-performance ones is to be studied.

The study of consumed feed nutrients digestibility in different groups of heifers  revealed that all animal feeds were comsumed readily and differences were small and insignificant. It is possible to identify two aspects that affect the digestibility – age and feed quality.

Elevated nutrient digestibility positively affect the growth rate of experimental animals. Comparison of average daily gains certifies growth by 7.3% as compared to a group of heifers that were in commercial diets.

Thus directional growing of repair young cattle at the first stage of their food using concentrate INTERMIKS KM standard with a moderate level of energy supplied up to 9 months provides average fatness of animals. This points to an optimal level of this type of diet on the development of heifers gastrointestinal tract.

Key words: repair heifers, growth and development, weight gains, soy concentrate Intermiks KM Standard.

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