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A ration full of fillers by the sound of it, bullocks that size as previously stated need 5kg a day at least of a good ration to drive them on. Cheap might sound good but performance is best, we feed growing mix and a finishing coarse ration to stock to drive them, the less time spent in the yard the better. The money only comes at the drop of the hammer or the back leg in the air and weight is everything.

What you need is bull finisher ration,dont ask me what ingredients but that is what in the know use

That’s cos their addiditives in bull nuts that stop acidosis for ad-lib feeding .

hi maize nuts is what simasa sessions should be feeding. Tho I doubt there’s much return feeding a hape of meal inside to dairy bred cattle

I am feeding 5 kg/ head of straight maize to some bullocks at present. They are on excellent silage ( it was tested at 77 DMD & 42%DM).

Recommended to feed with it a 10 %P ration so maize will do.

Costing 316/ton out of Kerry group in bags.

I have never seen cattle turn there nose up to good barley or maize. I suspect the nuts, I have seen this happen before where I was feeding a decent ration and ran out, I had to go to local.co-op for a few bags until bin was filled again

The cattle would put there nose into the trough and then look up at you as if to say "WTF is this"

If you can get straight maize ( yellow meal) I feed them 3-4 kgs of it. Any decent ration in bags will cost 370/ ton paying the equivalent of nearly 400/ ton for maize munch off Dairygold but it's only for a few bags for a few weanling that were bought and squeezed.

Get a bag of minerals as well. I not sure what tTirlan will charge you for Maize, Dairygold were 320/ ton.

For 4-6 weeks P will not matter and for a 50/ton difference the bit they will sh!t will make no difference. Often we go too technical about we do. I always fed maize ( or barley but preferably maize) with any finishing nut I ever bought.

20 month Angus and Whitehead bullocks doing 1.25kg a day here on 4kg of Gain fast finisher nuts and adlib red clover silage

Should all go wensday week hopefully

I have a few cull/dry cows to get rid off, they would have been TB tested in April this year.

they would probably require another bit of feeding before the factory.

I had planned on bring them to the mart, but I’m just wondering now with the new TB testing rules - because it’s been more than 6 months since the cows were tested - would I be taking a big hit on bringing them to the mart ? (My understanding is that the purchaser would have to get them tested in his or her herd then)

There very valid points @Siamsa Sessions, when does one stop testing.

What would ye recommend for 8/9 month old continental weanlings on ad lib middling silage, getting minerals....something like above only up the protein?

Majority of them will probably get a summer at grass in 24 and be on their way april/may/June ish 25.

Which app is the weanling sale in Carrick on Shannon on?