Pre Calving: Feeding Oats and Soya Bean Meal

Yes doing it here for a couple years now in dairy cows

think it’s a super job

cows transition well to milking and are used to meal

theyve excellent colostrum and lots of it, calves could get a couple feeds of colostrum here there’s so much of it and we’ve very few severe cases of scour in calves since doing it

5-700g soya - depending on how your silage is for protein

1.5 - 1.3 kg oats then, just make up a 2 kg per hd

No buy them in 800 kg bags

hard to justify for the few tonne we use of each

The crows are absolutely torturous if we feed oats..had to abandon..how do the rest of you cope?

Would barely not put extra condition on the cow & increase calf size?

How much are the 800kg bags of Soya Bean Meal?

Have been using seaweed meal as a pre calfer for a couple of years now, just shake it over the silage, cattle got mad for it.

Presume it's rolled Oats rather than whole Oats ?

€15 for small bag (25kg), I think it was €12.60 last year