feeding silage bales

dar31

how long would you need to leave bales of silage after wrapping before feeding them again. minimum amount of time, they were wrapped sunday 10th middling dry, good - high quality grass

running into a hole in the grass wedge for about 4-5 day, growth has been poor, and with the second milk price drop in as many months i can afford to buy any meal,

BeeDI

dar31 wrote: »

how long would you need to leave bales of silage after wrapping before feeding them again. minimum amount of time, they were wrapped sunday 10th middling dry, good - high quality grass

running into a hole in the grass wedge for about 4-5 day, growth has been poor, and with the second milk price drop in as many months i can afford to buy any meal,

Opened a bale yesterday, wrapped exactly one week prior. Beautiful stuff. Cut dry, in the afternoon on Saturday. Wrapped evening on Sunday after a good sunny day. Has well fermented in seven days.

dar31

cheers beedi
cut and wrapped the same time as ours then
might open a few this evening as see how they feed

just done up covers for this morning
down to 105/cow, 400 over the farm, but have good bit of after grass coming in next week, and the reseeds are starting to perform and come in as well, with these into the calculations im back to 130kg/cow, just have a big pothole to overcome for the week

dar31

7 days, made still green
10 days, starting to turn
14 day, looked about right

they still eat them grand at 7 days old

1chippy

The front of our pit split this year. First time ever. but any way three days after going in and we deided to load it back up. after the three days the grasss was a lovely golden colour. we threw some exces out with the cows in the field and they ate away on it no problem. ata that it seemed a wee bit to early though.

bob charles

once they are baled fed away it won't make any difference. We rarely sheet down pit of forage to the bottom as we just start using them the minute the contractors leave the yard, be it crimp grain,whole crop, maize etc