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Feeding fodder beet to cows

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  • #32
    stanflt
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Im not going to grow maize or winter wheat.
    Hoping to get very high 70 DMD silage for winter milkers this yr and minimal meal fed. What would ye feed with the silage to get a good 26l out of cows and not take condition off cows.
    Heaps and heaps of beat for sale around me

    assumes avg cow weight is 580

    13kg/dm 76dmd silage
    5kg fresh brewers
    ikg soya
    4kg 16% hi nrg nut in parlour
    0.4kg straw

    required for 27kg and 3.4%p


  • #33
    Greengrass1
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    stanflt wrote: »
    assumes avg cow weight is 580

    13kg/dm 76dmd silage
    5kg fresh brewers
    ikg soya
    4kg 16% hi nrg nut in parlour
    0.4kg straw

    required for 27kg and 3.4%p
    Simple diet. Will see if we can go with that.
    Breeding results looking good. Will Scan in a few weeks. Looks like an 80% conception to 1st service


  • #34
    Timmaay
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Im not going to grow maize or winter wheat.
    Hoping to get very high 70 DMD silage for winter milkers this yr and minimal meal fed. What would ye feed with the silage to get a good 26l out of cows and not take condition off cows.
    Heaps and heaps of beat for sale around me

    Beet not a bad option, but be careful about feeding too much sugar beet. I've said it a few times to ya ha, the best option is just to reduce the number of your winter calvers...


  • #35
    Greengrass1
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    Timmaay wrote: »
    Beet not a bad option, but be careful about feeding too much sugar beet. I've said it a few times to ya ha, the best option is just to reduce the number of your winter calvers...

    I will when I'm fully stocked.
    Will be 45 to serve next winter. I'll only keep 30 winter milkers wether I sell those 15 or push them too spring is the question


  • #36
    stanflt
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    I will when I'm fully stocked.
    Will be 45 to serve next winter. I'll only keep 30 winter milkers wether I sell those 15 or push them too spring is the question

    30 winter milkers and late lact cows requires 1200 litres of winter milk contract per day


    Do you have this or do you need to be winter milking


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  • #37
    Greengrass1
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    stanflt wrote: »
    30 winter milkers and late lact cows requires 1200 litres of winter milk contract per day


    Do you have this or do you need to be winter milking

    Think our winter contract is 500l day.
    Were thinking about buying some liquid contract.
    I'll be able to milk on 60 next ye to nearly Christmas
    I shouldn't need contract for the late lact cows.
    If I have contract for what I calve and milk I will be good to go


  • #38
    stanflt
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Think our winter contract is 500l day.
    Were thinking about buying some liquid contract.
    I'll be able to milk on 60 next ye to nearly Christmas
    I shouldn't need contract for the late lact cows.
    If I have contract for what I calve and milk I will be good to go

    You only need to calve 15 winter cows in November to fill your contract- calve the rest in jan feb


  • #39
    Greengrass1
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    stanflt wrote: »
    You only need to calve 15 winter cows in November to fill your contract- calve the rest in jan feb

    We've always over supplied and got paid granted only 35/40 being milked 25/30 fresh calved
    Might change with quotas going. Definitely not going to bother my arse if they make us stick to our contract and we only need to calve 15 cows.
    I'll stay in bed for the extra hr over the winter


  • #40
    Timmaay
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    Our liquid contract is 350l/day. Winter surplus bonus runs out in December, and is quite small anyways. We calved 14 last autumn, and milked on another 30 late spring calvers, so have over suppled the Jan liquid by about 8klitres, annoying because we get zero bonus on it. My dad wanted to serve more winter milkers this year but I've dug my heals in, and pushing them around until the spring (it's got to the stage where if he tells me go out and get the number of the cow bulling I tell him it's a cull ha). Also the reason why I've being very quick to boot the cows out to grass now, was I buying or selling milk with the cows on grass silage, maize, 6kg of nuts, low solids and no winter bonus ha??


  • #41
    Greengrass1
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    Those late lactation milkers is cheap milk.
    There going to get silage any way.
    Minute grass us gone this autumn any milket needing TLC will be dried and rest milked up to 6 wks before calving like we always did.
    We haven't decided if we'll buy any liquid contract yet but if we do it'll only be for another 500l.
    In case glanbia dig the heels in and make us stick to our winter contract


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