Austria

Rations in Austria:

Mainly there are three different types of basic feeding in Austria. Either you only feed hay, for example when you produce cheese, or you mix hay and grass silage. You also can add maize silage to this mixture.

When you only feed hay you have to give the cows more concentrates in addition. When you feed hay, grass silage and maize silage you add less concentrate. But of course the amount of concentrate to feed depends on the quality of the basic food, on the weight and the breed and milk performance of the cow.

A typical diet for an austrian 650kg dairy cow that yields 25kg milk:

Production in Austria:

In austria 372736 cows milk are kept for milkproduction. The average milk production in Austria is about 6507kg/cow and lactation with 4.18 percent of fat and a protein level of 3.41 percent. 

The most common breed in Austria is the Simmental with a percentage of 80. Then there are also the “Braunvieh” (similar to Braun Swiss), “Pinzgauer”, the “Tyrolian Grauvieh” and “Holstein Frisian” (a diary breed).

Diseases in Austria:

A very formidable disease in Austria is milk fever. There occur phosphor and selenium losses too.

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Page updated 11.4.2006