How much silage will I need

morphy87

Just wondering how extra acres of silage would I want to shut off for 45 weanlings?

I usually cut it early enough, it doesn’t be savage heavy

My winter is usually 140 days, and these weanlings will be getting 1kg of meal

TooOldBoots

Around 170 bales or 140 ton of silage for 4.5 months.
So an average light crop of 8 bales/acre comes in at about 20 acres of silage

Cavanjack

morphy87 wrote: »

Just wondering how extra acres of silage would I want to shut off for 45 weanlings?

I usually cut it early enough, it doesn’t be savage heavy

My winter is usually 140 days, and these weanlings will be getting 1kg of meal

They’d prob clean a good bale a day along with a bit of meal. And you’ll get 8 bales off an acre of good enough stuff.

SuperTortoise

160 bales ish, 1 cut on 20 acres.

Cavanjack

Goes to show the cost to keep them for the winter. I’m counting €77 on silage alone. Another €30 for meal. Slurry/straw then. Maybe a dead one, maintenance on shed etc.

Albert Johnson

Cavanjack wrote: »

Goes to show the cost to keep them for the winter. I’m counting €77 on silage alone. Another €30 for meal. Slurry/straw then. Maybe a dead one, maintenance on shed etc.

And yet I'm repeatedly told you can winter weanlings for sub €1 a day, I'd love to be able to do it but I don't see how it can be done with rising costs and lengthening winter's. You have the bones of €140 spent there between silage and meal and no talk of slurry, dosing, mortality, fixed costs ect.

A friend of mine had to take back two heifers that he sold in early November that proved incalf. He showed me the invoice he received off the buyer and he billed him €3 a day for feeding since (€450) plus vets fee's for scanning at another €50 each. They didn't cost much more than that when he sold them and there now standing €1150 a piece, the 2 of them together are hardly worth €1200 and springing to bull unknown. If I was asked to buy something last November that would gross €500 between then and mid April I'd say it couldn't be done.

morphy87

Sound for that lads,I was thinking myself something similar to the figures ye gave

Good loser

I'd say about 30 bales a month should feed them.

I've got 8, 10, 12 and 14 bales per acre over the years.

cute geoge

Isn't it mad when you ad up the cost of keeping a yierling for the winter ,just say meal and silage alone come to over E100

cacs

morphy87 wrote: »

Just wondering how extra acres of silage would I want to shut off for 45 weanlings?

I usually cut it early enough, it doesn’t be savage heavy

My winter is usually 140 days, and these weanlings will be getting 1kg of meal

I had 15 weanlings in a pen last year. All fees together. They ate 1 bale every three days if that is any good to you.

Good loser

cacs wrote: »

I had 15 weanlings in a pen last year. All fees together. They ate 1 bale every three days if that is any good to you.

That corresponds to 30 bales per month for the 45 stock OP was asking about.

morphy87

cacs wrote: »

I had 15 weanlings in a pen last year. All fees together. They ate 1 bale every three days if that is any good to you.

Thanks for that