Are Ye Feeding Weanlings or Not?

50HX

looking for a bit if advice here

have a range of weanlings that i'm holding onto til next spring purely because i've plenty of fodder from this and last year and need to get through it although the weanlings will be on this years after grass silage (waiting on dmd to come back)

bulls are ~300-375kg
heifers are ~280-350kg

would ye recommed feeding them on for the winter for a target sale of mid March (weather dependant)

or

keep them on good quality silage only

all are in the process of being dosed for fluke,worms & lice

White Clover

50HX wrote: »

looking for a bit if advice here

have a range of weanlings that i'm holding onto til next spring purely because i've plenty of fodder from this and last year and need to get through it although the weanlings will be on this years after grass silage (waiting on dmd to come back)

bulls are ~300-375kg
heifers are ~280-350kg

would ye recommed feeding them on for the winter for a target sale of mid March (weather dependant)

or

keep them on good quality silage only

all are in the process of being dosed for fluke,worms & lice

Their diet would need to be a minimum of 16% protein to keep them growing. You would need savage quality silage to get away without concentrates. Wait til you get your silage results back and work out what they'll need then

Zr105

50HX wrote: »

looking for a bit if advice here

have a range of weanlings that i'm holding onto til next spring purely because i've plenty of fodder from this and last year and need to get through it although the weanlings will be on this years after grass silage (waiting on dmd to come back)

bulls are ~300-375kg
heifers are ~280-350kg

would ye recommed feeding them on for the winter for a target sale of mid March (weather dependant)

or

keep them on good quality silage only

all are in the process of being dosed for fluke,worms & lice

If it's leafy after grass silage then you shouldn't need too much meal, but they'd need something to keep them going.

Ration should prob be obtainable for round 270 I'd guess, if you fed them 1.5kg a day till mid March your looking at roughly 100days so that'd cost around €40 a head if my maths is right,

At a kg a head a day your only lookin at €27, wouldn't be a massive cost per head in either case as it should be paid back...

50HX

cheers

i was thinking of giving them something but not too sure what

once the protein is right does it really matter what you choose then if i aim to keep em growing but not drive em on mad if you get my drift

Miname

Autumn born calves are on a kilo a day here, some spring born heifers on the same and the leftovers of the spring born bulls are on two kilos and I'll rise them to 3 in January and sold the end of feb start of March, if your going keeping them I'd cut meal out in January. First year trying to push the autumn lads early on so I'll let you know how it works April/ may time.