Soiled water/slurry with trailing shoe

mahoney_j

Just wondering what lads would think of putting out above with the shoe on my cow paddocks.have enough to do 80% of them with about 1500 glns to the acre..put out 3 k glns of thick slurry on silage ground in early June after first cut and it seemed to work pretty well in dry conditions.place is starting to look fairly bare,can see about 13 to 14 days ahead but wedge is flat after that.will be bringing in a buffer of bale silage ,hulls and straw from next week if things don't pick up

RobertKK

I se on the IFJ on the dairy section that gives yields, protein/BF and quality, that one farmer is putting 3,000 litres of dairy washings per acre.

mahoney_j

Would just be worried that in this weather when put on with a conventional tank it may burn the grass or definitely taint it making bit unpalatable for cows.what I'm spreading won't even put a clour on the field.anyway bit the bullet and have tanker on way at 6 this evening and going to chance it

Timmaay

Let us know how ya get on!

mahoney_j

Timmaay wrote: »

Let us know how ya get on!

Will do he's still at it ,suited me and him to do it this evening.coldest day we've had in a while though!!!!have measured growth on these paddocks on sat and ranged from 20 to 70.so will be interesting.moisture stress really starting to bite though.anything grazed in last week to 10 days is struggling

yellow50HX

just thinking back to last year when a lot of lads had thier tanks full and counldnt empty them. there were a few lads that have seprate tanks for dairy washings which they spread during the year. in this dry weather does putting out dairy washings get a good return on the grass as it mostly water or is there a danger with run off?