Table 1

Ingredients and nutrient composition of the total mixed diet fed to primiparous SRW dairy cows

Ingredients
% of DM

Mix Silage
39.00
Mix Hay
5.00
Barley
18.09
Oats
15.12
Rape Seed Cake
6.48
Rape Seed Meal
2.16
Brewers Grain
2.16
Soybean Meal
3.78
Dried Sugar Beet Pulp
5.40
Wheat Bran
0.81
Mineral Mix1
2.00
Nutrients analysis
% of DM
DM (%)
52.50
CP
17.20
NDF
35.94
Ether extract
3.72
Ash
9.01
Ca
0.89
P
0.46
NEL MJ/kg of DM
6.95

1Mineral mix: calcium carbonated 40%, sodium bicarbonate 25%, sepiolite 13%, sodium chloride 12%, mono calcium phosphate 4%, yeast 2%, barley 2%, 280,000 IU/kg of vitamin A, 14,000 IU/kg of vitamin D3, 1880 mg/kg of vitamin E, 31.50 mg/kg of vitamin B1, 21 mg/kg of vitamin B2, 11 mg/kg of vitamin B6, 0.21 mg/kg of vitamin B12, 0.21 mg/kg of biotin, 2100 mg/kg of vitamin PP, 2100 mg/kg of choline, 800 mg/kg of Fe, 700 mg/kg of Mn, 175 mg/kg of Cu, 1750 mg/kg of Zn, 35 mg/kg of I, 7 mg/kg of Co, 11.5 mg/kg of Se.

Konigsson et al. Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2008 50:3   doi:10.1186/1751-0147-50-3