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Fattening cows

  • 26-06-2017 3:31pm
    #1
    dodo mommy
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    Evening all
    I have a couple of cull cows that I intend to fatten thinking of putting them into shed and feeding them on a high maze nut or would barley be a better option. All opinion welcome.


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  • #2
    wiggy123
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    not to just take to mart.. will there be much difference-profit wise? they dairy stock?


  • #3
    Byrnie55483
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    Finishing heifers need supplementation at the rate of 2-4kg meal per day.It costs about ?1.50 per day to feed a cow on silage plus 4kg meal. For this you will get about 0.5kg carcase worth ?1.12 at ?2.24/kg (80p/lb). Therefore, the best way to finish a cull cow is as cheaply as possible off grass.


  • #4
    Mooooo
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    dodo mommy wrote: »
    Evening all
    I have a couple of cull cows that I intend to fatten thinking of putting them into shed and feeding them on a high maze nut or would barley be a better option. All opinion welcome.

    Leave them out on grass and a low protein meal will have them finished, no need to put them in


  • #5
    Sam Kade
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    dodo mommy wrote: »
    Evening all
    I have a couple of cull cows that I intend to fatten thinking of putting them into shed and feeding them on a high maze nut or would barley be a better option. All opinion welcome.
    As much grass as they can eat depending on their condition now they should be fit in 2-3 months.


  • #6
    Pidae.m
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    dodo mommy wrote: »
    Evening all
    I have a couple of cull cows that I intend to fatten thinking of putting them into shed and feeding them on a high maze nut or would barley be a better option. All opinion welcome.

    I'd agree with the other posters. Sell em in the mart now finish them off grass.


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  • #7
    blue5000
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    OP are they dry? If they would grade 3= for fat I'd let them straight off now. If not fit then graze them for the summer. Unless you have your own rolled barley I couldn't see housing them pay.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #8
    bogman_bass
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    Leave them at grass with 2kg of rolled barley


  • #9
    dodo mommy
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    Into a field of lush after grass it is so for them. They are chx and in fair good condition as it is so will off then soon enough, might check out the mart trade in the mean time. Thanks for all the reply.


  • #10
    K.G.
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    Flirting with the notion of fattening dry cows.would adlib ration be mad and get them out in ninty days with just straw.dry cows are a sticky trade at the moment and silage is looking tighter so normal strategy of wintering and letting into mart last week in jan probaly not going to work this year


  • #11
    visatorro
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    K.G. wrote: »
    Flirting with the notion of fattening dry cows.would adlib ration be mad and get them out in ninty days with just straw.dry cows are a sticky trade at the moment and silage is looking tighter so normal strategy of wintering and letting into mart last week in jan probaly not going to work this year

    Sold six outta the yard, 3500e. Two very poor older culls worth feck all. Four store cows that would need a lot of feeding to make around the thousand mark in the factory . He'll feed them on and make a hundred a head maybe. That's his game. I was happy enough.


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  • #12
    Mooooo
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    K.G. wrote: »
    Flirting with the notion of fattening dry cows.would adlib ration be mad and get them out in ninty days with just straw.dry cows are a sticky trade at the moment and silage is looking tighter so normal strategy of wintering and letting into mart last week in jan probaly not going to work this year

    Are they dry at the moment? Yielding much? Could milk em once a day and horse the ration in to them in the parlour and send em straight to factory?


  • #13
    K.G.
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    Mooooo wrote: »
    Are they dry at the moment? Yielding much? Could milk em once a day and horse the ration in to them in the parlour and send em straight to factory?
    no notion of milking 10 0r 11 cows on their own for dec/jan.opehlia cancelled plans to milk later calvers on with them for dec and then dry and sell end of jan but i think silage squeeze might mean prices wont rise lads slower to buy until grass is there.just have a house available that would suit and have access to an adlib feeder so there wouldnt be much work in it.


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