few more QQQQQs

shy_boy

how do dairy farmers no how much silage they need for winter is their a % per cow?
How much does contractor charge for cutting/pitting silage?
What does P and K stand for?
Milk Fever?
Grass Tetany?
Metabolic Disorders post calving?
What does R grade, U grade and 0 grading cows ?
How many acres are usaully paddocks and how are they managed?
sorry if these stupid qs?
Thanks in advance:)

Bizzum

I'll start the ball rolling and answer one question. I'll pick the question on carcase grade!EUROP Beef scale is used in the factories to grade the carcase conformation and fat score of a beef animal. E is the top grade and P is the lowest grade. There are further subdivisions at each grade of -, +, and =. Each carcase will also have an associated fat score of 1 to 5, 5 being the fattest. There are further subdivisions of the fat score into H for high and L for low. So as an example a heifer could grade U4L. U is comformation and very good in this case. 4L is the fat score, so well finished in this case.Hope this simple explanation will suffice!

red bull

P phosphate
K potassium
Milk Fever is brought on by calcium deficeincy

cj maxx

sorry P*K was all i can answer:o

dzer2

10 cows eat a bale of silage a day so if you house in Nov and out to grass in feb then count the days and multiply by number of cows then divide by 10.

topgeas

dzer2 wrote: »

10 cows eat a bale of silage a day so if you house in Nov and out to grass in feb then count the days and multiply by number of cows then divide by 10.

jesus you have hungry cows. a bale does 2 days for me.

ootbitb

on paddocks the thinking is divide your grazing area into 21 daily paddocks to maximize utilisation of grass and minimise worm parasite burden.

I would think in practise most farmers use less but bigger paddocks to suit hedges, watercourses, topping, fertilizing and provision of drinking points.

stanflt

an animal will consum 3% of its bodyweight in dry matter. so this is your starting point

100cows weighing avg 600kg housed for 5months (150days) will consume

100*600*0.03*150=270tonne of dm. avg silage is usually 25%dm so 4tonne of fresh weight will give 1tonne of dm

so 100cows will need 1080tonne of silage

contractors normally charge around 100euro per acre

iverjohnston

If you have fertile land, a paddock of about 1 acre should feed 40 cows for 1 day. In a normal grass growing year. So 21 paddocks should suffice in the main growing season, so long as you top and fertilize after each grazing. At the latter end of the year, growth will have slowed, so you will need more acreagee to extenf the number of days between grazings. This is usually the silage ground after the first or second cut, depending on how much you need to keep closed up to have enough silage saved.