Mayak LTD

 

Cherkasy region, Zolotonosha district

Total herd size is 2300 heads of cattle, including 1,000 milking cows.

Cows are kept in the reconstructed barns and milked in parlour «parallel» 2×16 (Boumatic). It has been working since 2003.

Milking is three times a day. Daily milk yield is 29 tons with a fat content of 3.8%, protein — 3.2%, SCC — up to 200 thousand per ml, bacteria count — up to 100 thousand per ml. Average daily yield per cow is 30 kg.

Milk calves are kept in individual houses. They drink 3 liters of whole pasteurized milk three times a day. Calves are weaned when it eats 2 kg of mixed feed (50th day of life).

Replacements from 2 months to late dry off are kept on specially equipped outdoor open lots. The sections are designed for 30−50 heads, depending on age and for the convenience of working with cattle are equipped with hedlocks.

The floor is concreted, movable gates. The litter is renewed once a week.

The age of heifers at the first insemination is 13−15 months, the age at first calving is 22−25 months. Sexed semen is used to inseminate heifers. The complex is serviced by 35 employees.

For legumes and cereals forage harvesting a combination of NOVACAT 301 Alpha Motion RC + NOVACAT X8 RC (8.30 m) mowers are used; two TOP 1252 C four-wheel rollers (adjustable working width from 8 to 12.5 m); Torch HIT 10.11 T (10 rotors, working width 10.60 m); JUMBO 10 010 L.

Also owners use the sowing complex TERRASEM C 9 Artis Plus.

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