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The third calvers in a 10k herd are doing 11-13k.
Right before they die. ?
Right before they die. ?
What does you dry cow diet look like on paper?We are doing 11,000 litres biggest 305 day yields are 17,000 litres.
Transitioning these cows is very hard work, we have jumped in yield from about 9,000 2 years ago and what worked then doesn't work as well now.
Straw processing is very important and we found rotagrinding a big step forward. Out diet is very similar to yours and we add water to help intakes too.
How prevalent are DA's and milk fever? At the sort of yield level your talking about i dont believe your going to manage 2500 calvings without a twist.
Probably trying to make you feel good about yourself/ your farm system, i think alot of people tell you what they think you want to hearat our yearly meeting with our accountants, who are a large ag accounting firm, he told us that, his firm had very few high imput, high output herds that made a profit in the last year, is he right ?
at our yearly meeting with our accountants, who are a large ag accounting firm, he told us that, his firm had very few high imput, high output herds that made a profit in the last year, is he right ?
Just a thought for you, a diet containing high straw and mag chloride will be less palatable with the addition of water.That's a discussion for another thread but I'll just say I'm happy doing what I do.
8.5 Grass
16 maize
3.75 chopped straw
7 water
1.5 soya
0.8 soya hulls
150g bespoke Dc minerals
150g mag chloride
Im 90% happy with it.
What's the dm of the forages ? 7l water seems alot to me, we have straw, haylage as our forages and don't add water.That's a discussion for another thread but I'll just say I'm happy doing what I do.
8.5 Grass
16 maize
3.75 chopped straw
7 water
1.5 soya
0.8 soya hulls
150g bespoke Dc minerals
150g mag chloride
Im 90% happy with it.
You might be right, could be an intake issueJust a thought for you, a diet containing high straw and mag chloride will be less palatable with the addition of water.
Just a thought for you, a diet containing high straw and mag chloride will be less palatable with the addition of water.
What's the dm of the forages ? 7l water seems alot to me, we have straw, haylage as our forages and don't add water.
We just chuck a hesston in the mix little or no sorting, we've used rotaground straw but I honestly can't see a massive difference other than another bill and a dusty farmI also add water in my dry cow mix. Without it they sort the straw right out and there is no reason to add it.
I add water to a DM level of less than 40% in the mix. If not, they sort it.
Right now we add about 7 liters to hit 39%.
We just chuck a hesston in the mix little or no sorting, we've used rotaground straw but I honestly can't see a massive difference other than another bill and a dusty farm
It’s something I just can’t get right,I absolutely hate calving due to complications afterwards.
Currently feeding 5kilo of chopped straw with the rest made up of the milk cow ration,dry cow minerals and 150g of mag chloride.
Averaging just over 10k litres with a third of the herd in 1st lactation.
Any suggestions?
Tia Eulb ....
3kg soya?Our Dry cows don't get a sniff of grass silage, 5kgs blitzed straw, 18kgs Maize, 3kg Soya 150g Mag. Milk Fever is 0.25%, RFM are like rocking horse manure.
[emoji383] man [emoji23]3kg soya?