Stephen Caughey
Ards Peninsula
Northern Ireland
150 Holstein Friesians,
Current average production:
7,000kg, 4% butterfat, 3.2% protein, SCC 114,000 cells/ml
I test silage every six weeks and if it’s wet or too easily fermentable then straw and the rumen buffer Equaliser is added. Last winter the cows had to switch to a very ‘soft’ fermentable silage that would have put the acid balance at real risk.`
So we added Equaliser at a rate of 150g/cow/day, and a cost of 7.5p/cow/day. This helped avoid any digestive upsets and improved digestibility of the diet. We also avoided any dips in milk quality. In fact, Equaliser did exactly what I wanted. It completely eliminated cud balls and a dip in butterfats.