Adjust TMR feeding times, if necessary, to induce cows to eat more during cool early morning or evening hours. Keeping corn silage in the diet during the summer as DMI is higher when corn silage is fed. Feeding more times a day and push feed up to cows. Clean bunks and feed alleys daily to eliminate old, heated, and picked over feed. Provide plenty of cool, fresh water.
Summer heat increases water intake, so adding extra tanks or troughs usaully helps.
Reduce the use of by-product feed ingredients that may be less palatable until fall. Increase or add buffer's into the diet. Supply free-choice buffers and white salt to help make up for individual cow differences. ANC increases ration potassium during hot weather. Monitor actual DMI and rebalance ration if intake is off by more than a pound.