Is your shed designed with herd performance in mind?

Ruminant nutritionist Brian Reidy says he sees too many sheds set up incorrectly for the cows using them
Is your shed designed with herd performance in mind?

If you diet-feed, then you need a little less barrier space than if you are top dressing with some concentrates.

Following on from last week, when I covered how achieving high dry matter intakes in early lactation would benefit a herd throughout their whole lactation, it is worth looking at other details that can affect this around the farm.

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