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‘ Andrew’ s herd average is currently 9800 litres and his Holstein Friesian cows are now housed indoors all year round’ |
You think you know what you are feeding your cows but you really haven’ t a clue until it comes out on the print-outs. You can soon find out that you’ ve over-fed them. Using the new Keenan has meant that I have saved myself around £ 700- £ 800 a month by feeding what is right. When times are hard everyone looks for efficiency and that’ s where |
the Pace technology comes in and where you can see day on day how much it is costing to produce a litre of milk.
‘ The Pace technology clocks everything that is going through the machine. My In-Touch Keenan feeding specialist Chris Lord tells me there are three diets – one that the nutritionist sets, the one fed to the cows and the
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one the cows actually eat. The Pace technology manages this so that all three are the same or as close as they can be. This way you’ re putting in what the nutritionist is telling you and it is then being mixed in such a way that animals are not being selective over it as it is more palatable.’
‘ I can now go to a screen and tell you what has been
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