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SECTION I
FEEDING OF ANIMALS
Feeding is an important aspect of dairying
as it accounts for around 70% of total cost
of milk production. Different types of dietary
feed ingredients for dairy cows and buffaloes
include concentrates such as compound cattle
feed, oil cakes, grains and grain byproducts
like brans and chunnies; cultivated green
fodders and grasses; crop residues like straws
and stovers. Following chapters are included
in this section:
A. Feeding of dairy animals.
B. Importance of Ration Balancing Programme.
C. Importance of compound cattle feed in
milk production.
D. Importance of bypass protein feed.
E. Importance of feeding mineral mixture.
F. Urea Molasses Mineral Block (UMMB)– A
feed Supplement
G. Importance of drinking water for dairy
animals.
H. Care of pregnant animals.
I. Nutritional care after calving.
J. Examples of preparing Total Mixed Ration
(TMR) for cow.
K. Examples of preparing Total Mixed Ration
(TMR) for buffalo.