Practice | Level | Frequency (%) |
How to estimate the amount of forage | Do not estimate | 13.8 |
Feed troughs | 37.2 | |
Gunny bags | 36.0 | |
Weighing scale | 4.3 | |
Both feed trough and gunny bags | 6.2 | |
Both feed trough and weighing scale | 1.9 | |
Gunny bag, weighing scale or feed trough | 0.4 | |
Type of supplement used | Concentrate | 87.0 |
Forage | 0.5 | |
Both concentrate and forage | 12.5 | |
Factors considered for supplementation | Milk production only | 35.7 |
Supplement affordability only | 2.9 | |
Availability of feed supplement only | 7.9 | |
Both milk production and supplement affordability | 7.0 | |
Both milk production and the availability of feed supplements | 24.7 | |
Both affordability and availability of feed supplements | 0.7 | |
Milk production, availability and affordability of feed supplements | 20.9 | |
Balanced diet | 0.2 | |
Strategy for supplementing | Uniform rate | 27.6 |
Based on milk production | 67.1 | |
Both milk production and the body of the cow | 0.4 | |
Both milk production and cost | 4.9 |