Complicated feed mixture for feeding highly productive dairy cows

The issue of material support in dairy cattle breeding, occupying a leading position in the Vologda region’s agriculture, remains acute. The main difficulty lies in lacking attention to the development and formation of a stable feed supply, as well as in the lack of an integrated approach to implementation of modern feeding technologies. The errors made in the production of high-quality feeds and their irrational use that ignores the approved scientific based feeding standards, result in decreased milk productivity and increased feed costs per unit of production, which ultimately have a negative effect on the economic efficiency of the whole dairy complex. For feeding farm animals, feeds of plant origin of own production are mainly used, followed by distributing them in the feeders. Thus, the issue of developing feed mixtures for highly productive cows that meet their physiological and biochemical needs remains relevant.