Verify Causes of Nutritional Imbalances

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By understanding which components of the group's milk yield is affected by the nutrition imbalance, it is possible to determine the reasons for the problem, and solutions to correct the issue.

The Groups Monitoring screen provides clear alerts to the milk components that have deteriorated. Use this information to take steps to quickly correct the causes.

See more details about how to access the Group Monitoring screen.

  • Green indicators – nutritional values are within optimal limits.

  • Red indicators – nutritional values are not within optimal limits.

Data

Possible Causes:

Guidelines for Action:

Low Fat

P186C4T2#yIS1

Red - Indicates low daily fat percentage values.

Possible Causes:

  • Amount of roughage in the ration is too low.

  • Amount of effective fiber in the ration is too low.

  • Insufficient level of buffers in the ration.

Guidelines for Action:

  • Reevaluate ration composition and verify that the amount of roughage is appropriate.

  • Check fibers in the Total Meal Ration (TMR) are not too finely cut.

  • Review feeding management routines (number, sequence and frequency of feed deliveries).

Fat Decrease

P200C8T2#yIS1

Red - Indicates a decrease in milk fat percentage.

Possible Causes:

  • Change in feed contents (such as introduction of new feeds or new silage pit was opened).

  • Insufficient effective fiber (too finely cut roughage).

  • Insufficient level of buffers in the ration.

Guidelines for Action:

  • Check for changes in the ration feed contents in the past few days.

  • Check for changes in the TMR preparation procedures in the past few days.

  • Check for changes in feeding schedules in the past few days (feeding time consistency is important).

Protein Decrease

P214C12T2#yIS1

Red - Indicates a low protein trend.

Possible Causes:

  • Insufficient supply of soluble energy sources.

  • Insufficient supply of soluble protein sources.

  • Insufficient supply of total crude protein in rations.

  • Improper supply of different sources of proteins.

Guidelines for Action:

  • Review the ration energy and protein content (having a variety of Amino-Acid sources is important).

  • Reevaluate the starch and protein sources in the ration (solubility rates).

SARA Suspicion – Day

P228C16T2#yIS1

Red - Indicates signs of Sub-Acute Ruminal Acidosis (SARA) in the last 24-hours, in one or more groups in the herd, with one or both of the following parameters exceeding the acceptable range:

  • Percentage of cows with milk fat depression within a group or a herd – more than 10% with less than 2.5% milk fat.

  • Fat/protein ratio within a group or a herd – less than 1.00.

Possible Causes:

  • Amount of roughage in the ration is too low.

  • Amount of effective fiber in the ration is too low.

  • Insufficient level of buffers in the ration.

  • Unbalanced cations to anions ratio.

Guidelines for Action:

  • Review the ration composition.

  • Check TMR preparation practices.

  • Check feeding management routines.

SARA Suspicion – Session

P245C20T2#yIS1

Red – Indicates signs of SARA in one or more milking sessions, in one or more groups in the herd.

Possible causes:

  • Not enough feed rations during the day.

  • Inappropriate timing of feedings during the day.

  • Cows selecting concentrated feed from the TMR.

Guidelines for action:

  • Review feeding management routines including schedule and distribution during the day.

  • Verify that the fiber is at the optimal length.

Access the Group Monitoring screen

The Group Monitoring screen is accessed via the Folder list in the Dashboard.

To view the Groups Nutrition Monitoring screen:

  1. Open the Folder List.

  1. Expand the Today folder, then click Groups Monitoring.