Beef grazing 2024

Cavanjack

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122843763#Comment_122843763

I’d let them out onto that. There’ll be a meadow there in the spring otherwise. The longer weanlings stay outside the better imo

limo_100

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122843893#Comment_122843893

il get them weaned so and back out on that will be able to hold them out until near Xmas so silage saved and everything. I won’t be giving them any silage or hay but I don’t think they will need that would I be right? Wonder would I be better quitting the feeder aswel and just give them 2-3kg of nuts a day instead?

Who2

hay is good to keep them from getting too loose on grass this time of year. You will be surprised how much they will eat even with good grass , if your weaning and leaving them out I’d leave the creep with and it should stand to them. What’s the few extra kilos going to amount to over a few weeks?

Cavanjack

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122844577#Comment_122844577

it’s the work involved that’d put me off it. Always Did it here with weanlings I bought in but for the last three years it’s no meal until they go into the house. It hasn’t made any difference to their housing weight after the second summer on grass and that’s the one that counts for me.
It is a good way of herding alright and if numbers were small it’s not a big job.
Ive 60 weanling bulls at the minute outside on grass only and they are getting on the finest.

50HX

Outside all day long

Way better for them & they'll hit ground faster when grass shoots in spring.

Ration,minerals & as suggested hay or silage to them & they will do finest.

Use always outwinter the weanlings here b4

limo_100

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122844577#Comment_122844577

actually checked them today and surprisingly there dung is fine. I would put them in for a few days to wean them handiest way to do it I find.

actually very happy with most of my Calves one or two might be the wrong breed 🤣 but there still good calves overall. I will leave the feeder with them so think it would stand to them. Some of the heifers are 300kg so maybe keep the feeder and get the ai next may.

limo_100

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122845348#Comment_122845348

Used to out winter some bucket calves over the years but it seems like out wintering is a bad word these days no-one seems to do it anymore and your frowned upon if you do 🤣

Dunedin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122845496#Comment_122845496

the weather is the enemy of out wintering. No fun in looking at animals huddled in a corner with humps on their backs and walking around in slop.

morphy87

Have many of you stock out away, places are getting a little messy here now, certain fields very damp and a bit of cutting up around gaps, we got a nice bit of rain last night

older by the day

I must order some nuts in bulk his week Probably 15% hi maize. Any prices. Il go nuts as I have a crow problem at the moment

Sami23

Housed the Cows and Weanlings here on Saturday. Plan is dose all for fluke with Fluconix around Christmas (6 weeks).

Should I be giving anything else to them particularly the calves/weanlings. Calves/Weanlings got Dectomax in middle of September.

Tia

mr.stonewall

Everything housed between Friday afternoon and Saturday, all be it with 40 in already

Dosed all growing stock as there a good bit of lungworm coughing and I was holding off until they were in the yard. All weighed and backs and tails clipped and sorted to pens. Busy busy day

I will dose for fluke in 2-3 weeks time with endofluke. (Fasinex generic) Also blitz everything for lice around the same time in each shed

Dunedin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122851474#Comment_122851474

exact same ritual here regarding dowsing, tails and backs. Always dose 2-3 weeks after housing with endofluke. It gets all the stages of fluke then and it’s a cheap dose.

Cavanjack

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122850756#Comment_122850756

In around €300 for a good high maize nut blown into a bin.

older by the day

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122851669#Comment_122851669

Thanks, my crowd were 340 last month

WoozieWu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122851384#Comment_122851384

maybe some minerals if youa re keeping them long term

Sami23

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122851715#Comment_122851715

Yes will be keeping them till next September/October

minerleague

Have the home place paddocked ( 4-5 days for suckler cows and calves) but when it comes to this time of year the cows would be bawling at you and standing at gap next day wanting to be moved despite having grass, so what do people do? split the paddocks to 1 or 2 days and keep moving?

limo_100

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122851384#Comment_122851384

Is it ok to worm dose the calves as they go to the shed With ivomac or do I need to wait to allow the worms to mature to get them all?

mr.stonewall

The mectins give a bit of a kill for longer and coverage for a few weeks approx 2-3. The break of housing will stop cattle picking up parasites with the exception of lice. I dosed with a generic ivermectin on entry to the shed but had a bit of hose for the past 2 weeks .

Fluke I would let it mature a bit more to have an effective kill

Lice it's make sure to treat all stock in the same shed in the same day. Keep a close eye 3-4 weeks later and any bit of a sign hit again to kill the hatched larve

memorystick

I’ve a batch of 6 month old calves out still. Would they be better off in? No feed in grass and have sheep grazing ground so not worried about covers not being cleaned off.

Bass Reeves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122855645#Comment_122855645

If you have a bale of hay or haylage stick it out in the field with them. Admittedly cold spell over the next week is an ideal housing opportunity. However young cattle tend to do better outside if they have the right feed

memorystick

I know they’d be better but I’m not out until 7 o’clock at night. I’ve loads of space and straw. How are lads for silage? Some very mixed prices on DD. I’ve over 100 to sell I’d say

Bass Reeves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122855685#Comment_122855685

If you have straw all the better bake of Oaten or barley straw in a feeder, however wheat will do. For 20 calves like that outside you are probably saving a bale of silage every two days and that is if 30DM+ silage. Pain feeding them meal outside. A bale of straw will last the bones of a week at a guess. If not place a bake in the feeder on a Thursday or Friday evening and top it up Sunday

Sami23

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122853470#Comment_122853470

I'd imagine be better wait a few weeks as enough stress going on with the housing and potential weaning but that's just my opinion - others might disagree.

Cavanjack

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122856062#Comment_122856062

I’d agree there. At this stage I’d wait until mid December and dose with levefas. Should see you covered for everything then.

cute geoge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122856551#Comment_122856551

Can you tell us what levefas product you use and will all these doses only be available from you local vet trough perscription from Janurary next year on

Cavanjack

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122856589#Comment_122856589

I just use levefas diamond.
Buying it in the local co-op for the last year or so as the vets haven’t got it.
Yeah think it’s a prescription from then on.

Closamectein pour on is also a great product and kills immature fluke afaik and it’s handy to use but costs €2 more a head for a 350 kg weanling. Maybe worth the extra money.

memorystick

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122855712#Comment_122855712

I think I’ll throw a bale of hay into the feeder. I might get another month of them out.

Bass Reeves

Grazing season coming to the end. These bullocks are going on kale and oats

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Light heifers still outside. They will get until Christmas I say.

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Turned out a great end of year for grass.