Dairy Cattle Nutrition

Overview

This series of fourteen tables shows dry matter percentage, undegradable intake protein as a percent of crude protein, soluble protein as a crude protein percentage, and more for feeds such as grasses, soybeans, wheat, wheat bran, sorghum or milo, fish meal, corn distillers, feather meal, and almost seventy other possible feeds. The charts can be viewed on the screen or printed to help you calculate exactly what you need to feed your cows.

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Tables

Note: The expectancies in these tables are provided for use when analyses are not available. If feasable, test concentrate ingredients as well as forages. These best-fit data have been developed from Northeastern DHI forage testing summaries and compilations by the National Research Council (NRC) and from the feed industry. The table below presents the nutrient specifications on forages and concentrate ingredients. This information may be helpful to people developing ration programs for cattle when the nutrient content of a particular ingredient is unkown. This table was developed from forage and feed analyses conducted in Northeastern United States. These values may not be appropriate or representative for other areas of the country.

• Table 1: Grass hay, legume hay, legume hay, grass hay, corn silage, corn silage urea
• Table 2: Corn silage NH3, small grain silage (ryelage), small grain silage (oatlage), sorghum sudan silage
• Table 3: grass haylage, grass haylage, legume haylage, legume haylage
• Table 4: Grass past spring, grass past suer, grass past fall, grass past early head, grass past full head, legume past spring
• Table 5: Legume past suer, legume past fall, legume past bloom, grass past spring, grass past suer, grass past fall
• Table 6: grass past early bloom, legume past spring, legume past suer, legume past fall, legume past bloom, sor-sud past 30 inches
• Table 7: Sor-sud past 40 inches, kale tops brassicas, tritical pea silage
• Table 8: Bakery product, barley, beet pulp dried, blood meal, brewer's wet, brewer's dried
• Table 9: Canola, chocolate, donuts, candy products, high moisture corn, shell corn
• Table 10: Ear corn dry, high moisture ear corn, corn gluten feed, corn gluten meal 60 percent, cottonseed meal 41 percent, whole cottonseed
• Table 11: Corn distillers light, corn distillers dark, feather meal, fish meal menhdn, hominy, meat and bone meal
• Table 12: Molasses dried, molasses liquid, oats, rye, sorghum or milo, heated soybeans
• Table 13: Whole soybeans, soy hulls, soybean meal 44 percent, soybean meal 48 percent, wheat, wheat bran
• Table 14: Wheat mids, whey liquid acid, whey dried, candy, soybean meal treated/high UIP, syobean meal expeller