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Working together to produce more milk

The start of lactation is paired with a number of major challenges. With our tailored advice on nutrition, your cows will be off to a healthy start. Our dairy cow feeds and lactation starter will help your cows reach their highest production peak. Using the right feeding schedules, we can help support maximum efficiency on your farm.

During the first phase of lactation, it is important to remember that your dairy cow’s nutrient requirements, such as energy, protein and minerals, will be particularly high due to the rapid increase in milk production. Combined with low absorption capacity in the first weeks after calving, this requires a balanced approach to rations.

A graph showing the lactation of a cow

During the first weeks of lactation, the cow’s requirements will exceed their absorption capacity. As a result, she will find herself in a negative energy and protein balance, thereby drawing on her own body reserves. Tight feed management and concentrated rations are needed to provide maximum support to the cow during this period, making sure to choose the right concentrate feed as early as possible. Proxani offers a wide range of lactation starters to help support your cows in achieving a healthy production peak. So be sure to choose our high-quality cattle feed.

Thanks to our expertise in cow nutrition and lactation, we can help find the right solution for any ration schedule (complete mixed rations, semi-mixed rations coupled with robotic milking, parlour milking or automatic feeders).

Be sure to also discover our range of feeds specifically formulated for early lactation:

Ferti

The main nutritional causes of infertility are related to negative energy balance and oxidative stress around calving. Increase the fertility of your dairy cows! Discover our products.

Nutex

The Nutex range has a high content of extruded linseed and/or rapeseed, as well as omega-3 fats.

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