Mud, like we’re experiencing this winter and in addition as has been skilled in most up-to-date winters, can have important impression on efficiency in a cow/calf operation. Throughout final winter’s Ohio Beef Faculty webinar collection, then OSU Animal Sciences’ PhD candidate Kirsten Nickles’ shared her analysis into the impression of mud on the cow herd. On this 8 minute excerpt from that session, Nickles summarizes the long run prices of mud when it comes to cow and calf efficiency if sufficient supplemental diet just isn’t supplied to compensate for the added cow vitality necessities created by a muddy surroundings.
