Cow Calf: Getting Cows Bred In July & August
How can we abridge the import of warm stress? The original logical approach would be to Channel the access of your cows to endophyte-infected fescue during the arousal stress months (mid-June thru August). Grazing options incorporate warm condition grasses, endophyte-free fescue, predominately legume pastures, and/or sorgum sudan grass. Cows could graze endophyte-infected pastures until late-May to mid-June while the summer grazing pastures grow.
Cows could then be turned out on the “summer pastures” until the end of the manners season. If non-endophyte pastures are not feasible, then diluting the fescue with legumes and/or other feedstuffs will assistant modify the colliding of the exhilaration stress. One supplemental pasturage that appears to slash the slang shit of torridity stress is fat.
Research at the University of Kentucky has demonstrated that feeding cows pongy rotund diets while grazing exceptionally infected endophyte fescue during the breeding mature can help reduce heat stress and refurbish pregnancy rates. In these trials, cows were fed either a Commercial podginess Supplement autonomous choice or whole soybeans (3 lbs/hd/day) during the gentility season (6/5-8/15). Fat supplementation increased braids shedding, Reduced cow body temperature, and Increase pregnancy rates from 56% to 78%.
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