Hi all,

I am newbie here in this forum. Actually i make my mind to make a cattle and make business with it. So i want a answer of my question from you professionals.

Question is if i have 5 cows so how much i get milk on daily basis from them estimately and which diet i use for cows that i got more milk from them?

Any other professional tips will be appreciated.

Sorry for bad English.

I would like to address your second question...."and which diet i use for cows that i got more milk from them?" If your family is going to be drinking some of this milk, I would be more concerned with QUALITY than quantity. Hopefully, as a group, members of Local Harvest are more concerned with Quality. With that as my Goal, I would want to select dairy animals that can thrive on grass and then feed them the highest quality grass and hay as I can produce. A high quality mineral program for the soil and mineral box is essential.

Steve

Thank you very much Steve.

Shah,
While cattle can eat and are fed many things they do best on grass and as consistent a diet as you can manage. In many countries they get fed grain but this is not what they are designed to eat and they do best on grass. There are many other things that will influence their production also, mineral and salt, water intake and how far they have to walk, whether they get adequate social and laying down time a day. Cattle do best when they are in an environment that changes as little as possible, where they get good parasite and insect control and are not exposed to climate extremes. Hope this helps.

There is a lot of information available online from land grant university extension programs. For someone wanting to go the grass fed route you will have to sift through some of it, but there is a lot of good forage and pasture management information available.