Feeding at Night

Conor556

Is it true that if you feed cows in the evening then they wont calve during the night, I heard this a few times and was wondering has anyone else any experience in doing it and does it work

mahoney_j

Works well for me anyway,I can group a batch of 16 cows within 10 days of calving and let them into feed at about 9 o clock and give them enough to last till about 7 or 8 the following morning,After that nothing only water and most will calve from early morning and throughout the day

timjack

Conor556 wrote: »

Is it true that if you feed cows in the evening then they wont calve during the night, I heard this a few times and was wondering has anyone else any experience in doing it and does it work

Doing it the last 5 yrs ,need to be doing at least 6 weeks before calving ,most will calve early on the morning,will not work for every cow also problem calvings will be middle of night i found if doing this

rs8

not sure if it works but ive heard of farmers getting up at night to do this

badshot

i've been doing it for the last 15 16 years
find it works great
feed them at 8 in the evening

Conmaicne Mara

Would the same work for sheep

blue5000

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Would the same work for sheep

I know a doctor who worked in the coome maternity hospital and is wondering would it work on women??:D:D

Definitely works on cows anyway.

Conmaicne Mara

blue5000 wrote: »

I know a doctor who worked in the coome maternity hospital and is wondering would it work on women??:D:D

Definitely works on cows anyway.

I'm going to bite my tongue here and not comment

scarten

Have fed in the evening for years now and it works very well. from about a month before calving i feed the cows as the last job in the evening generally about 6-6.30, the majority of cows will calve from 6 am to 10 pm.

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Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Would the same work for sheep

take the ram in at night