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Fodder Advice - buying hay and getting it wrapped?!!

  • 23-04-2011 08:48PM
    #1
    Bodacious
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    Looking for experience/views on the following?

    This year im thinking of not making as much silage/haylage because i think when alls taken into account there is very little difference in price making your own where i live. Also i would use opportunity of extra grass to reseed:):)

    What im suggesting is sourcing good quality round bales and transporting them to land and getting local guy to wrap them and i can position them where i want them and not touch them again til feeding time (i outwinter sucklers). What is best brand of plastic that i should get for wrapping hay and how many bales/ wraps per roll approx?

    Or am i mad to do this?

    Many thanks in advance.:(


Comments

  • #2
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,954 ✭✭✭stanflt


    have you worked out the cost of a kg of dmd of both


  • #3
    Bodacious
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    stanflt wrote: »
    have you worked out the cost of a kg of dmd of both

    Hi Stanflt,

    No i havent worked out that costing, just when i make our own we wilt it well and shake twice so that its nearly hay and of higher DMD content than silage but i have no tests to compare etc Just know in my head how many bales of haylage i need to feed them well for the winter without any ration to compliment diet


  • #4
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,954 ✭✭✭stanflt


    Bodacious wrote: »
    Hi Stanflt,

    No i havent worked out that costing, just when i make our own we wilt it well and shake twice so that its nearly hay and of higher DMD content than silage but i have no tests to compare etc Just know in my head how many bales of haylage i need to feed them well for the winter without any ration to compliment diet


    just an opinion that i base my winter feeding on
    i dont cut really strong cuts of grass-aim for 3-4cuts of silage a year

    i wouldnt expect my animals to eat in the winter what they wouldnt eat in the summer- imo hay is only suitable for cows before they calve and for calves


  • #5
    what happen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭what happen


    stanflt wrote: »
    just an opinion that i base my winter feeding on
    i dont cut really strong cuts of grass-aim for 3-4cuts of silage a year

    i wouldnt expect my animals to eat in the winter what they wouldnt eat in the summer- imo hay is only suitable for cows before they calve and for calves
    the farmers years ago fed all their cattle hay all winter.


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