Bass Reeves wrote: With this type of grass I pre mow it for cattle. In the present type of weather you can pre mow 3-4 days grazing. If very hot weather and long days you would want to limit it to 1-2 days at most. I did it ths summer in late june waiting for after grass. I was amazed in the difference in thrive between mowing and grazing. With pre mowing intake is huge and no waste compared to tryong to graze it. As well you will have to top it anyway.
Bass Reeves wrote: Get caught now and again with this type of grass during the summer. In beef no point in feeding ration to put weight on during the summer so watching grass is abit different to cows where you can afford to supplement and get paid for it.
Bass Reeves wrote: » I been feeding bullocks since late April first lot went the 3 week in June( a F@@king week to late). I have exited winter finishing and bulls. I run cattle in two batches stores( yearling and 2 year olds) and a finishing bunch getting 3ish kgs of a Barley/maize/hulls mix. It is costing 215/ ton in the bin. Some cattle will get 8-10 weeks but some only 4-6 weeks. As they come fit they are killed. Any time a friesian is hitting 1300 euro or over he leaving a right nice twist.
MonFarmer15 wrote: » Some good advise there lads. This is what they're grazing at the minute and after grass coming. If I wanted to finish that BBX in 8-10 weeks, would he want to be getting 5kg of ration from now?
Willfarman wrote: » Anyone getting better than 3.85? Usual ****e. Take it or leave it and it's 3.80 for next Monday. My friendly local Larries plant.
Danzy wrote: » They are truly awful bastards.
blue5000 wrote: » I reckon the minions are due into your local mart any day now to buy cheap cattle, cheaper because the factory price has dropped. Feedlots have to be filled now to depress the factory price at christmas. Only other excuse is that sterling is at 91p.
Dunedin wrote: » If you are giving 5kg, make sure to give it over two feeds as opposed to once a day.
Willfarman wrote: » Baa nana!!! It's all that eejits like me can hope for. But while the barons are allowed to plunder rural economies we can't carry the losses on our own.
pedigree 6 wrote: » You'll never get an animal to fatten on that. There's no feed value let alone feed to fatten on in that growth stage of grass.
gerryirl wrote: » folks its shocking whats going on.. Theres no excuse this time for 30 cent swing in 2 weeks. Its time the IFA and other the other mouthpiece's stopped talking about it and actually do something about it... but I wont hold my breath. The IFA have become very weak the last 10 years when dealing with the beef issues. A study done a few years ago showed to be breaking even or god forbid even make a cent you need to be getting €4 a kilo
riemann wrote: » Needed to be said. Maybe this man doesn't have a tractor and mower, or maybe the land is too wet to pass and if so fair enough, each to his own. Best of luck to him.
rangler1 wrote: » Only one solution , withdraw supplies, until that's done the ''mouthpieces'' are the only ones that are actually doing anything. When we were trying to thrash out the new National Roads Deal years ago it wasn't a lot of help to us when the NRA were claiming that ''there's deals being done'' Breakeven cost of silage is over €25/bale....plenty being bought at €20 and it's farmers that's the offenders there
pedigree 6 wrote: » Everyday is a learning day and if you're listening to sugar everyday you're not learning. I think the message got across to the poster and to anyone else reading the post so some information was learned by all so it was a useful exercise. What I learned though is that Whelan2 has the horn on for me by thanking any posts mildly disagreeing with me.:D
