Slurry for grazing

moy83

Does anyone here use slurry after grazing ?
We usually put our tanks out after the first cut of silage but I think if the slurry doesnt put the cattle off grazing I would prefer to put slurry on that ground and keep the fert for silage ground
Our silage ground is two or three miles from the sheds while the grazing is mostly around home so it would be easier not to have to draw the slurry that far when I could have all the fert put out in an evening on silage ground and and motor around the home place every couple of weeks with a few tanks when id have the cattle moved .
It would be a bit of a pain agitating every couple of weeks though ,thats a draw back . Do any of ye use that gear that you pour down the tank and it mixes it ? Would it keep the tank soft for a month or two I wonder ?
Well is it a mad idea or does anyone else work it this way ? The most thing I'm wondering is would the grass be sour for eating after a few doses of slurry ?

caseman

moy83 wrote: »

Does anyone here use slurry after grazing ?
We usually put our tanks out after the first cut of silage but I think if the slurry doesnt put the cattle off grazing I would prefer to put slurry on that ground and keep the fert for silage ground
Our silage ground is two or three miles from the sheds while the grazing is mostly around home so it would be easier not to have to draw the slurry that far when I could have all the fert put out in an evening on silage ground and and motor around the home place every couple of weeks with a few tanks when id have the cattle moved .
It would be a bit of a pain agitating every couple of weeks though ,thats a draw back . Do any of ye use that gear that you pour down the tank and it mixes it ? Would it keep the tank soft for a month or two I wonder ?
Well is it a mad idea or does anyone else work it this way ? The most thing I'm wondering is would the grass be sour for eating after a few doses of slurry ?

Always spread slurry after the first grazing here. I find the tanks under the finishing stock last a couple of weeks without agitating.
But under the cows it only lasts a week so it's put out after silage.No problems with cattle eating grass after slurry.

reilig

All ground gets slurry here.

Because we have a late start to grazing (End of April, early May), we usually cover pasture and meadows with slurry in mid March. Any uncovered ground will be covered after the first grazing with more slurry or imported pig slurry.

6480

i mix it up with pig slurry and as the grazing year begins from mid march i add more pig slurry to lighten it down a bit as the weather warms up , i kind of spread little but often

bob charles

you can graze 2 or 3 days after applying pig slurry:eek: Something I havnt tried but often applied cattle by trailing shoe to half a field with cattle in it and they never seem to take any notice and graze all over

freedominacup

bob charles wrote: »

you can graze 2 or 3 days after applying pig slurry:eek: Something I havnt tried but often applied cattle by trailing shoe to half a field with cattle in it and they never seem to take any notice and graze all over

You can try:eek:

reilig

6480 wrote: »

spread little but often

Thats the key IMO. Too many farmers around here spread their slurry to get rid of it as opposed to spreading it to grow grass. Its heaped on at the wrong time of the year. It's not grazed. It ends up with a dirty white sole which needs to be topped. And then farmers wonder why their fields have become tender and why rushes have started to grow where they never grew before.