- Location
- South Molton
Cows still out day and night here. Having round bale silage at night and 8 inches of clover/grass.
milking well and a good torch!
milking well and a good torch!
who's got their cows out?
- Thread starter Sid
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still out here
Ayr calving here. In by night, out by day for a few hours pretty much on full winter ration. Not much grass about just out for a bit of excersice and take the muck out. Yesterday's rain made it very wet. Reckon when it rains again the gate will be locked. I always find it interesting how we all do it different
- Location
- North yorks
Still out here, most stopping in over night, but was 15% of them outside when I got up this morning! robot screen says we're averaging 2.4 milkings and 27.3 kg of milk per cow
Princess Pooper
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- Location
- East Mids
Everything out at day, fresh calvers all in at night to get some extra grub into them. Stale cows get 3/4 hr at silage around each milking as getting very short of grass which is worrying as these stale cows would normally leave out once far-off dry. Bulling heifers brought in last week, vaccinating etc this week start serving early Nov.
More to life
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- Location
- Somerset
Lows are out by day and getting 1kg wheat and 6kg/dm grass silage at night which is gone by 10 pm this is working well group average of 20 liters with 4kg in the parlour I think I've 3 weeks grass left if the weather plays ball the ground is still pretty dry
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
we have at least 3 weeks left by day and about 18 nights keep having to push out the end date as grass hasn't given up growing quite yet. cows getting about 3kgDM maize silage before afternoon milking.
no need for a torch here(yet) cows still coming home pretty well on the batchlatch
no need for a torch here(yet) cows still coming home pretty well on the batchlatch
multi power
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
Autumn calvers here. In at night for about a week now. Another week of grazing and then in full time
Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
Autumn Calvers here. Been in for 2/3 weeks now started serving 2 days ago so like to have them settled on a diet before then. Hope to see them out in Jan weather permitting
Ducati899
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- Location
- north dorset
Mine been in day and night for 6 weeks now [emoji53] gonna be a long winter for me
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
are you short of grazing land @Ducati899 ? or do you have high yielders perhaps?
Ducati899
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- Location
- north dorset
Not short of grazing but we had a real wet week 6/7 weeks ago and as were one of the wettest farms in the Blackmore vale the gateways were just getting far too muddy and milking wasn't enjoyable so bit the bullet and had them in plus yeah they are high yielders
multi power
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
I will race you to turnout
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
I wonder how close your farm is to ours! Perhaps(he mentions with a tin hat on) a few railway sleeper tracks would help your situation.Its been an amazing growing season in the vale. seems a shame to miss out on that low cost DM. friends have had grass samples done recently showing ME between 11.5 and 12 and proteins in the mid twenties and DM around 19% brilliant feed really
Turnout here is mid to the end of April if we're lucky. Ground is just too wet until you have longer days