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 Early lactation generally refers to the first 100 days of lactation. At the establishment of this phase, cows will attain peak milk production feed intake is lagging and cows are typically losing weight. Cows must calve to yield milk and the lactation cycle is the period between one calving and the next.The cycle is splitting into four phases, the early, mid and late lactation and the dry period. In an ideal world, cows calve every 12 months.A number of variations occur in cows as they progress through altered stages of lactation.As well as differences in milk production, there are changes in feed intake and body condition, and stage of pregnancy. The interrelationships between feed intake, milk produce and live weight for a Friesian cow with a 14 month inter-calving interval, hence a 360 d lactation.   Cows, blocked in keeping with parity and birth date, were introduced to the experiment before birth and unbroken within the experiment till wk sixteen of lactation. feed was offered impromptu in loose housing and concentrate was on the market in automatic feed stations. Intake of grass feed once fed because the sole feed was sixteen.9 metric weight unit of DM on the average for lactation wk one to sixteen. once H1 was supplemented with four or eight metric weight unit of concentrates, feed DM intake failed to amendment, however total DM intake multiplied to twenty.6 and 23.7 kg/d, severally.  

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