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2017 any cattle out yet?

  • 18-01-2017 11:26pm
    #1
    Micey.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73 ✭✭


    Anyone any stock out yet?tempted to let young stock out as forecast good for next 7 days?


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  • #2
    farmerjj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭farmerjj


    Micey.ie wrote: »
    Anyone any stock out yet?tempted to let young stock out as forecast good for next 7 days?

    There's a good few folks with some stock still out,winter might not have started yet. Welcome to boards micey.


  • #3
    Who2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,180 ✭✭✭Who2


    put some in and let others out. anything calved is getting out straight away too. if it turns bad il bring them back in.


  • #4
    Micey.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73 ✭✭Micey.ie


    Cheers farmerjj. Yeah new to boards/farming -Inherited 25 acres fragmented/marginal land from late uncle 2 years ago and keep 12 suckler cows,farm is 15 miles from my house��.id say your right about winter hasn't come yet.i have fair grass(rested since late oct-no sheep)and would like to get some weanlings heifers out to get it grazed before get slurry out next month.if weather turned bad I could put them in again!!would save on silage also. It's usually march before I let anything out due mainly to weather but usually then it's April/May before I get slurry out.i know up here in northwest lads would think I'm gone in head if cattle were let out in Jan.


  • #5
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,396 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Micey.ie wrote: »
    Cheers farmerjj. Yeah new to boards/farming -Inherited 25 acres fragmented/marginal land from late uncle 2 years ago and keep 12 suckler cows,farm is 15 miles from my house��.id say your right about winter hasn't come yet.i have fair grass(rested since late oct-no sheep)and would like to get some weanlings heifers out to get it grazed before get slurry out next month.if weather turned bad I could put them in again!!would save on silage also. It's usually march before I let anything out due mainly to weather but usually then it's April/May before I get slurry out.i know up here in northwest lads would think I'm gone in head if cattle were let out in Jan.

    Once you think they won't do damage open the gate and let them on. How many paddocks in the place? Use pigtails and electric fence tape and strip graze if necessary. And finally phuck what the neighbours etc think.


  • #6
    f140
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 875 ✭✭✭f140


    what do ye consider not having a proper winter yet means? That we are in for a long cold snap meaning all grass which has grown so far grows back into the ground meaning a scarce grass over the next few months or that we will get fierce rain meaning cattle wont be able to get out to the grass?


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