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How Weather Affects Total Mixed Rations And Why It Is Significant To Dairy Cattle, Juliana Baranowski
How Weather Affects Total Mixed Rations And Why It Is Significant To Dairy Cattle, Juliana Baranowski
Honors College
The objective of this study was to determine how weather affects the dry matter percentage of a TMR fed to dairy cattle. Daily feed samples were collected from the University of Maine’s J.F. Witter Teaching and Research Center and stored in a freezer until dry matters could be determined. The feed samples were later thawed out, then placed in an oven at 60oC for a minimum of three days. This allowed all the moisture to be evaporated so the DM could be calculated. The maximum, minimum and average temperatures, as well as the precipitation and humidity were obtained daily from …