It all started back in the middle of May, when i returns from holiday and a week where I was really unwell, and found Tartine with a hard crest and fat ripples along her crest. I immediately taped her, and she was a massive 518kg. A year and a half ago she weighed 400kg, and I thought she looked porky then! :(
Anyway, we immediately had some changes in her routine. First of all, I put her straight into a muzzle when she was in the field - fortunately she took to this like a duck to water, and I've not had any issues with her accepting the muzzle at all :)
Secondly, I started weighing her hay, and started giving her two 3.5kg (total of 7kg -1.5% of her bodyweight) nets a day. I also started rinsing them, to damp them and hopefully wash some of the sugar out.
I requested that her balancer be stopped (although she didn't get much it still had molasses in it), and I started giving her soaked Agrobs weisencobs, with Pro Earth ProLaminae+, brewers yeast and cinnamon, with 100ml of micronised linseed to compensate for eh reduced green in her diet.
It didn't take long to lose the initial bloat, though her crest seems to harden up and go soft again with a mind of it's own.
Silly me forgot to take any photos right at the beginning, so I'll have to make do from Wednesday 28 Jun, when she was having a "fat" day, and taped at 490kg.
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| Tartine 490kg 28 Jun 2016 |
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