Anyone able to recommend cool season grass varieties
Going on the hook surely
At 8++ per Kg I should hope so.
More grass shoulder grower, kiwi mix of grasses,
This field hasn't got slurry our fert at all this year
What are you feeding them inside?
When was it closed
8kg of nuts and baled silage nothing fancy.. Cows milking well.
Milk filter clean here, but scc up at 350 - 500 the last three collections. Stripped them but nothing visible. I have no CMT paddle. Solution please?
Apparently these "homes" don't require power at night or most of the winter😅
That's Alot of nuts. Do you build them up to that after calving? I have mine on 5 kg and they are at grass every day. Mediocre silage at night. I'm disappointed enough with the milk but they're not long calved and about half of them are first and second calvers.
I see on o Neill dairy farm they got a load of beet/soya mix or something. Seemed a handy enough job. I've seen it on done deal since.
that stuff is as expensive as meal and not nearly as convenient as it
The new genocells service that munster and progressive are doing might be useful in a situation like that. I have no idea how costly or what's involved or how good it is. Your herd needs to be genotyped.
Other than, maybe invest in a CMT paddle and I usually start with any higher cell count ones from milk recording previous year.
Possibly get the machine looked at if it hasn't been done this year yet.
no its not alot of nuts… 8kgs is the minmum a freshly calved cow should be getting… if you have super duper silage and feeding maize or wholecrop you might be able to cut that back a bit… but the cow needs it all as she has alot going on after calving…
Do you milk record, or send a few samples off with milk lorry for scc
Exact same issue here. Last 2 over 400 and all before that less than 100. Found one and treated her but didn't drop count.
IIs it Worth the hassle of dealing with ai companies for calves.would always have 1 or 2 every year but never bothered about it but this year I m keeping less heifer calves so might have a bit of space to hold on for a while to a couple of bulls.they have sent a text about 4 out of 20 bulls registered which seems statistically high so I m just wondering will I let them off this week as planned or hold for a while
your lorry driver is hardly acting the b……x??
Thats the problem when all the grass is eaten and theres no growth like now cows will be rehoused in april may
Sub clinical cows often could be in the millions and their milk would have no clots,
Anytime theirs issues here, you'll find the problem cows with the above
End of October, have 20 acres of it, been a godsend the last 18 months but in a normal year it's a disaster mid season for throwing up seed-heads, if their high temperatures and lack of moisture
4kg per feed seems alot for me. I'd be afraid of upsets or ulcers. I've given my cows more grass today so they might have more milk in the morning.
Where did you get that product jay? Does the test take long to do?
If you have sample bottles for all you could sample all the cows and bring them into Enniscorthy farm systems. You'd have the results in probably an hour. If it was one or two cows they'd have the result while you are talking to them.
Agri-needs in Birr sell them, literally takes 10 seconds per quarter, squirt milk into the top it shows up a reading and you move onto the next quarter
Yes build them up to it. They seem content and solid enough bar a few exceptions. There was 3 in heat 2 nights ago so I can't complain.
Can any dairy farmer here give me any information about rotbunt cows? Just I know a man selling Calfs out of these cows
Cows out on grass day and night, getting good silage and 7kg of meal. Thinking of adding in maize or beet. Just wondering is it worth the work or is it easier give extra meal ?
any one know the formula for working out your p allowance
The most miserable evening, I have never put down. My grand heifer nearly 3 years, calf coming back wards, I jacked, calf came out easy enough. Calf dead, then the heifer was bleeding, vet came out trying to stitch inside, heifer dead.
Well feck it anyway. Remind me again of the goid points of being a farmer. Because I have forgotten
I'd be wondering why your feeding 7kgs in the first place with cows on grass, not to mind why you'd want to give them more. Meal is expensive and they're not pigs!
Or are they an extra high yielding confinement breed of cow that needs to get it?
