Health
A method used to balance the nutrient content of two feedstuffs in a ration.
What is the Pearson Square?
Feedstuffs that are high fiber and low in nutrient density.
What is roughage?
What is water availability?
The order you develop a ration.
What are steps to developing a ration?
22% wet matter has this.
Categorize the items, by the categories listed as well as junk food. Which group did you eat the most food from? The least? This image portrays what a balanced diet should look like for people. Just like people animals have their own nutritional needs that must be met in order for the animal to be healthy and productive.
What is MyPlate?
Feedstuffs that are low in fiber and high in nutrient density.
What is concentrate?
Where food is made that has an effect on feedstuffs.
What is geography?
Identify needs of the animal.
What is step one?
100 pounds of corn silage with 78% moisture has this.
What is 22lbs of dry mater?
An ingredient or material fed to animals for the purpose of sustenance.
What is a feedstuff?
Commonly used to provide small amounts of nutrients that are deficient in a ration.
What are supplements?
The same feedstuff may have different nutrient contents based on this.
Identify available feedstuffs.
What is step two?
125 tons of the corn silage with 78% moisture have this many tons of dry matter.
The same feedstuff may have different nutrient contents based on these.
What is water availability or geography?
Vitamins
What is a supplement?
The weather that affects feedstuffs.
What is temperature?
Calculate the amount of each feedstuff to use in the ration.
What is step three?
A ration calls for 32.6 pounds of alfalfa hay on an as-fed basis. The alfalfa hay has 91.3 percent dry matter. How many pounds of dry matter are in the hay on a 100% dry matter basis?
29.8lbs
The amount of nutrition derived from a feed varies from species to species due to digestive differences.
What is species variability?
Used to modify one or more properties of a feed.
What is a feed additive?
What is soil quality?
Check the ration against nutrient needs.
What is step four?
A cow is fed 18 lbs of DM/day. The ration is 54%DM. How many pounds of as-fed feed will she consume in one day?
3.333333lbs