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In out system

  • 25-08-2012 7:05pm
    #1
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭


    I've started putting the sucklers in by night and wondering what's people experiences on here of limited daily grazing. I know the journal has harped on about only letting them out for 3/4 hours daily. They were out for 11 hours today, and about 15 hours the two previous days. Do they need anything extra when they're in, especially if they're only out for 3/4 hours? I'm giving them ~0.5kg of beef nuts as much to entice them as for nutrition. I'm also using it to start the calves off on nuts in the creep area.


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  • #2
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,756 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    A neighbour of mine's been doing it and he gives them barley straw at night.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #3
    Bitten & Hisses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭Bitten & Hisses


    I'd like to try an on-off grazing system with my crowd, but they get a bit too crafty, expecially the few heifers I have running with them for the bull. They might come in for the first few times, but after that, they'd prefer to do laps of the field, rotovating the place, rather than come indoors. Then when you walk out to look at them in the morning, they'll be bellowing as if they had never been fed in their lives. I find that only torrential rain combined with lowish temperatures will entice my cows indoors, no matter how bad the ground conditions are.


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