Composition and nutritional value of diets given to dairy cows during the dry period.
Dry period
1st month 2nd month
Diet composition (DM basis) (g/kg diet) (g/kg diet)
Maize silage 519 522
Orange peel 60 –
Rapeseed meal 140 75
Perennial ryegrass hay 260 381
Mineral and vitamin mixa 20 18
CaCO3 2 –
MgCl – 4
Nutritional values (/cow/day) (/cow/day)
NEL (Mcal) 14.11 13.50
PDIN (g) 703 577
PDIE (g) 755 673
Calcium (g) 52.3 40.0
Phosphorus (g) 38.8 33.4