Finland

Feeding in Finland

The ration in Finland is based on silage. Next to that the most farmers feeds barley, oats, protein concentrates and extra minerals. Rape we use whit concentrates.   These products the farmers grows on their own fields.

In Finland we calculate protein balance by using OIV and PVT. Specifying of protein to match the animals needs decreases feeding costs and loss of nitrogen. OIV means protein absorbed in small intestine and PVT means protein balance in rumen. Basic of this systems is how much aminoacids absorbed in small intestine. OIV is that part of protein which cow can use to the production and to the maintenance. PVT means how big part of feed raw protein decompose in rumen.

Cow needs energy for the maintenance, movement, breathe and rumination and production. That how much cow needs energy of maintenance up to cow´s size, live weight and number of milk.

Production in Finland

If  we calculate the Finnish production the Duth way, the average milk production in Finland is 6935 kilograms over 305 days. 

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Diseases in Finland

The most common diseases which causes about losses of minerals are milk fever, grass tetany and selenum losses. Normally in Finland there is no phospor losses because the concentrates includes lot of phospor. The losses of selenium is problem in Finland. Solution is that selenium is added to fertilizers because the selenium is also important to people breadcorn.

Page updated 11.4.2006