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Yer mines not dropped below 4.3 and I e only just started calving again barrens and back Enders get grass and 400grams of 14perfent cake
But if your feeding 12 kgs of cake that's a large part of a cows DMI in concI disagree, when I stopped buffer feeding this spring butterfat dropped to 3.7, put some hay in a feeder and it went back up to 4 and litres went up by 2l a cow, I put that down to the grass being too high quality and not being able to get the full benefit, I then switched to silage and butter fat went up to 4.2 and litres went up by 1 per cow
What works on one farm might never work on another, personally I'll never not buffer feed something
Don’t take this the wrong way but buffering all year and feeding that amount off cake to frisians I can’t see you been in business in 5 years
there isn't any restriction on good quality grazing, they cannot eat more, to get more utilisation, it isn't going to slow passage through the cow, the longer it stays in the cow, the better utilisation you get, shitting your guts out everyday, would make you want to re-assess your diet, wouldn't it ? If it helps cow health, l don't mind doing it, if it doesn't, they won't get it. The hfrs are looking pulled, cannot feed them more cake, they just shite more.If grass is going through them fast just feed them more instead of a lower quality feed
They arent all having that!But if your feeding 12 kgs of cake that's a large part of a cows DMI in conc
Havent you got jerseys in the mix?Butter fat no lower than 4.4 here this yr on grass and blend.
My grazing this year is due to me learning the farm, I'm very clearly not as clever as most of you on here and got some things wrong and learnt a lot about the farm. It's not an easy farm despite what most of you seem to think, hopefully next year I can use what I have learnt this year and make less mistakes,Plus as soon as you put buffer feed into your cows you take your eye of your grazing and miss the boat aka some of your grass pictures earlier in the year
Well there’s a reason to that then but buffering and Corning the hell out of cows when he’s had to drag sucklers in to eat his grass is madness
It’s not about cleverness it’s about experience it’s a lot less expensive if you can learn from our mistakes than make the same ones yourself
Absolutely. I have the cow toHavent you got jerseys in the mix?
YesWith autumns?
But that bale has to be made and the sh!t has to be scrappedMy grazing this year is due to me learning the farm, I'm very clearly not as clever as most of you on here and got some things wrong and learnt a lot about the farm. It's not an easy farm despite what most of you seem to think, hopefully next year I can use what I have learnt this year and make less mistakes,
I don't get your point about buffer feeding causing me to take my eye off the ball? It takes me less than 5 minutes to put a bale in...
Any silage fed restricts the amount of grass they can eatthere isn't any restriction on good quality grazing, they cannot eat more, to get more utilisation, it isn't going to slow passage through the cow, the longer it stays in the cow, the better utilisation you get, shitting your guts out everyday, would make you want to re-assess your diet, wouldn't it ? If it helps cow health, l don't mind doing it, if it doesn't, they won't get it. The hfrs are looking pulled, cannot feed them more cake, they just shite more.
As for taking our eye of the grazing, no objection to taking some out, and bale it, may well need it to feed, if it comes in really wet, or dry.