Keepgrowing wrote: » Shear grab and 4-5kg good quality nut. Park feeder
awaywithyou wrote: » What would be a simple ration to put thru silage in diet feeder for milking cows....? Not interested in anything complicated...
straight wrote: Cows in by night here, out for a few hours a day. Milk has dropped to 14 litres on 3 kg meal.
mf240 wrote: » Tbh once I have enough silage for them I don't mind them being in.
whelan2 wrote: » I was giving out about cows being in early today, my mother said 10th October was always the date they would be in at night and 10 of April to have them out by day :eek: fair reminder of how things used to be, would be a long winter
mf240 wrote: » Would usually run out of grass by now. But have grass this year but weather beat me. Stocking rate lower this year as I managed to get a few extra acres
whelan2 wrote: » When would you normally house them? I think we were spoilt this last few years with great weather at the back end
alps wrote: » I wouldn't be so confident of them coming back up without an effort on the farmers part. I think if you want them back up you need to up the energy and protein to a level far higher than they would ordinarily require, to override any inbuilt trigger that the cow has to dry off. The message sent to her over the past week, with OAD and inside from pasture will have given the cow that message that the production season is over and it is now time to divert MJ's to the growing calf and to body condition. Get out to grass on every opportunity, up meal to a high 18/21 protein at 6kg. It's payback for the treatment last week and in many cases there is still 10% of the production year left, at very high milk price. Once back in track, you can relax the inputs, but why leave production behind....shell be dry for long enough..
mf240 wrote: » I think the moos moos are finished grazing for this year. There not too bothered by the looks of them.
Brown Podzol wrote: » Seems you can get back up to 100% of what yield you had previously after three or four days. A link here that was posted on Twitter, though this study was done on cows calves 115 days, may not be as successful on cows calves 200 days or more.http://www.nzsap.org/system/files/proceedings/2006/ab06048.pdf
Mooooo wrote: » Up to about 8, lost power and couldn't get hold of generator weren't milked for 50 hours. Coming back a bit, upped the meal. Will dry off a few that haven't come up and treating a few more for mastitis. All in all a disaster. Lucky Autumn calving only started last night.
K.G. wrote: » Generater starting to look cheaper every day when youlook at lost potenial.priced 45 kva @3500incl vst.stupid being with out one really
Mooooo wrote: » A heifer landed to join the 3 bulls. One starts and they all get in the mood
Keepgrowing wrote: » Cows milking 8 litres or up 8 litres since housing?
Mooooo wrote: » Cows in fulltime since last night. In calf heifers in as well. Yearlings and spring calves still out. Tried cows in a paddock for a few hours yday just too wet even for a short period . About 13 acres with a 2k cover and another 12 with 1600 maybe. Will use young stock to graze it if weather calms a bit. Drawback of having incalf heifers on kale last year is the fcukers are slow to lie on thr cubicles. Cows up to about 8 litres now
