{"id":347,"date":"2017-05-01T11:22:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T09:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/?p=347"},"modified":"2020-05-28T14:28:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T12:28:02","slug":"tip-van-de-maand-mei-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/2017\/05\/01\/tip-van-de-maand-mei-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip of the Month &#8211; May 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><p><strong>Robots and Grazing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For a successfully grazing policy on farms with milking robots, you have to keep a few rules in mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They start learning to graze when they are young!<\/li>\n<li>The keyword for grazing is &#8220;Early&#8221; :\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Early<\/span> in year, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">early<\/span> in the morning and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">early<\/span> (young) learning is very important for succes<\/li>\n<li>Keep in mind what is achievable, a lot of grass in the cow and feeding little in the stall, or is grass just a dessert, a meadow as a runway, play meadow and then feed a lot in the stalls.<br \/>\nThis really has to do with the amount of hectares grass and parcels round the farmhouse you have in relation to cows.<br \/>\nIf you overestimate this relationship, the smallest change in weather or the length of season will mess with your plans.<\/li>\n<li>Cows constantly need to be triggered to move: if they are in the stalls, they should also want to go to the meadow and if they are in the meadow they should want to go the robot.<br \/>\nThis can be achieved when you give the cows fresh grass every day and wait to add new feed in the stalls when they are outside.<\/li>\n<li>An ideal situation is one where they would go straight to the robots when they come in the stall and go to the troughs after they come out of the robot.<\/li>\n<li>A meadow selection port, Smartgate, \u00a0could make it easier.<\/li>\n<li>The path to the pasture should be wide (2-way path) to accommodate easy transportation of cows. It should be at least so wide that the dominant cows don\u2019t have the chance to stop other cows from moving.<\/li>\n<li>Drinking water during warm weather is also crucial. It would be ideal to place the water alongside the path to the stall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Stichting Weidegang&#8221; (Foundation Grazing), from University Wageningen Holland, has elaborated on 5 possibilities, with the correct policy added to it.<\/p>\n<p>It is assumed that the average cow eats about 15KG of dry feed per day.<\/p>\n<p>Possibility 1 is the maximum grazing grass, which means 13 KG Dry Matter of grass and 2 kg of roughage in the stable.<\/p>\n<p>Possibility 5 is the minimum grazing grass which means 2KG DM grass and 13KG roughage added in the stall.<\/p>\n<p>The possibilities 2,3 and 4 includes policies gradually feeding less grass and adding more feed in the stall.<\/p>\n<p>From nature behavior the cow prefers to eat most when she finds herself in the meadow in the morning and at dusk. And then, safely hidden, ruminating under a tree.<\/p>\n<p>Finding ways to play with these times by giving more fresh grass or picking the cows up at certain times makes grazing more fun.<br \/>\nThe tree has now been replaced by the roof of the barn.<\/p>\n<p>If the weather is hot than you can use these times by having the cows graze in the mornings and evenings instead of during the day.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robots and Grazing. For a successfully grazing policy on farms with milking robots, you have to keep a few rules in mind: They start learning to graze when they are young! The keyword for grazing is &#8220;Early&#8221; :\u00a0 Early in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}