Meal for calved heifer

wool521

Have 10 aax heifers ,two calved so far,just wondering what meal would be best for them and how much,thanks.

Greengrass1

wool521 wrote: »

Have 10 aax heifers ,two calved so far,just wondering what meal would be best for them and how much,thanks.

Sucklers hardly need meal?
Kg or 2 of barley

Farmer Pudsey

If you have plenty of grass ( and you should have) no need for ration. Ration may actually cause heifers/cows to come into too much milk too fast and cause scour in. Off to grass and not too much and keep an eye on them. If you want to spend a mineral bucket might be an idea.

mahoney_j

Farmer Pudsey wrote: »

If you have plenty of grass ( and you should have) no need for ration. Ration may actually cause heifers/cows to come into too much milk too fast and cause scour in. Off to grass and not too much and keep an eye on them. If you want to spend a mineral bucket might be an idea.

Tetany???

Farmer Pudsey

mahoney_j wrote: »

Tetany???

good point a bit of cal mag might not go astray you can but it straight from some vets. Small bit of ration so less than half a kg(even a bit of molases) with cal mag. Just be sure that as next heifer calves that she is used to cal mag before she joins group. Not really possible to get minerals buckets with it in them (I think) and hard to insure intake.

Greengrass1

mahoney_j wrote: »

Tetany???

No need get a block with mag in it. Never had teteny in our autumn cakvers

mahoney_j

Greengrass1 wrote: »

No need get a block with mag in it. Never had teteny in our autumn cakvers

Neighbour was minus 2 cows this am when rounding up cows,both had tetany .quota pressure and only feeding 0.5 kg barley at each milking to move them up parlour.expensive mistake

Greengrass1

mahoney_j wrote: »

Neighbour was minus 2 cows this am when rounding up cows,both had tetany .quota pressure and only feeding 0.5 kg barley at each milking to move them up parlour.expensive mistake

Sure is can happen easy too.

mahoney_j

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Sure is can happen easy too.

Sure can ,see a lot around here now only feeding straight barley or hulls and nob thought given to cal mag.i know lads are under pressure for quota but they need to keep there eye on the ball

Greengrass1

mahoney_j wrote: »

Sure can ,see a lot around here now only feeding straight barley or hulls and nob thought given to cal mag.i know lads are under pressure for quota but they need to keep there eye on the ball

Going feeding straight barley here after this lot of nuts is gone. Have mins in water though

mahoney_j

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Going feeding straight barley here after this lot of nuts is gone. Have mins in water though

I'd have big reservations about minerals through water especially cal mag from now on on wet days cows won't drink a huge amount .id be dusting paddocks as well or getting a simple 3 way with cal bag made up .big chance to take especially with fresh calvers

Greengrass1

mahoney_j wrote: »

I'd have big reservations about minerals through water especially cal mag from now on on wet days cows won't drink a huge amount .id be dusting paddocks as well or getting a simple 3 way with cal bag made up .big chance to take especially with fresh calvers

Good point but always worked for us. I can up the concentration of minerals in water to account for less water drank.
Actually only ever had one case of tetany here in all the length were here

lakill Farm

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Good point but always worked for us. I can up the concentration of minerals in water to account for less water drank.
Actually only ever had one case of tetany here in all the length were here

slightly off point - but what type of minerals are u giving in the water? do you give to young stock or just diary cows?

Greengrass1

lakill Farm wrote: »

slightly off point - but what type of minerals are u giving in the water? do you give to young stock or just diary cows?

Nutribio minerals. Phosphorus and trace elements goes to every trough in the place so what ever is here gets it. Going to try bolus for heifers on out farm next yr

Future Farmer

If the AAx are out of a dairy herd you probably want them to have less milk, the brother has 15 AAx Heifers going on second calvers this year they reared their 15 calves plus 10 Fr calves between them - no meal....

whelan2

wool521 wrote: »

Have 10 aax heifers ,two calved so far,just wondering what meal would be best for them and how much,thanks.

just mineral buckets here with ours atm -sucklers