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pappuller · Jan 14, 2022

Happy hillbily said:
Really need to repair the pipe that tops up the water for the cubicle shed
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The wife was working late tonight and came home with a surpriseView attachment 1009699
God that was good

I'll have to wait till tonight for my fish supper

Headless chicken · Jan 14, 2022

Just shy of 90 days fully housed and were back to it.

In the pit · Jan 14, 2022

Dam,beat me to it!!!

Headless chicken · Jan 14, 2022

In the pit said:
Dam,beat me to it!!!

Surely won’t be long now will you? Third day hard frost here and predicted nice for 10+

In the pit · Jan 14, 2022

Saturday
Put fences up yesterday
But what will the sheep eat

Blue. · Jan 14, 2022

pappuller said:
Alex got his claws into you lancashire boys too, they be through gisburn ?

Yes Gisburn,haven’t taken any live for a few years,thought they were taking the p1ss with d/W prices so I let them bid for them.

In the pit · Jan 14, 2022

Sent in a 2 grass samples Tuesday , so will be interesting to see what they come back with

In the pit · Jan 14, 2022

Headless chicken said:
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Just shy of 90 days fully housed and were back to it.

How many cows is that out

Jdunn55 · Jan 14, 2022

How do you tell when it's time to graze? I've got loads of grass here and conditions are good but the last thing I want is to graze it all off and then run out mid February when I have a load of fresh cows!
I suppose by measuring growth?

Happy hillbily · Jan 14, 2022

pappuller said:
I'll have to wait till tonight for my fish supper

I can certainly recommend Tir a môr in Llanrwst, but I'd imagine it would be cold by the time it gets to you

Headless chicken · Jan 14, 2022

In the pit said:
How many cows is that out

250 I think. Need to have a count up as we’ve been getting rid of culls to try and free up space and probably get more milk for doing less

Headless chicken · Jan 14, 2022

Jdunn55 said:
How do you tell when it's time to graze? I've got loads of grass here and conditions are good but the last thing I want is to graze it all off and then run out mid February when I have a load of fresh cows!
I suppose by measuring growth?

for us as an autumn calver and a dry farm it’s easy. First dry run in the new year they go out. We tend to leave some fairly long covers in the autumn so that’s where we start. We burn really easily so find if we don’t get going then our days at grass can actually be really short.
As a spring calver I have no clue

In the pit · Jan 14, 2022

Use a spring rotation planner so that will keep your grass under full control to mid April when you start your second round

In the pit · Jan 14, 2022

Crappy half rotten stuff this grass .where’s the sheep
Still , analysis is better than your best silage @som farmer

In the pit · Jan 14, 2022

Headless chicken said:
for us as an autumn calver and a dry farm it’s easy. First dry run in the new year they go out. We tend to leave some fairly long covers in the autumn so that’s where we start. We burn really easily so find if we don’t get going then our days at grass can actually be really short.
As a spring calver I have no clue

Do you give them a set amount to make grass last until magic day or just hope everything works out

Wesley · Jan 14, 2022

In the pit said:
Crappy half rotten stuff this grass .where’s the sheep
Still , analysis is better than your best silage

Thats fantastic, but try doing what you do on a farm that won’t carry cows this time of year. By the time we could get our cows on it the grass would be crappy & half rotten. So for us we’ll stick to the sheep eating it.

In the pit · Jan 14, 2022

Wesley said:
Thats fantastic, but try doing what you do on a farm that won’t carry cows this time of year. By the time we could get our cows on it the grass would be crappy & half rotten. So for us we’ll stick to the sheep eating it.

Infrastructure is the most important thing to get cows out

In the pit · Jan 14, 2022

Wesley said:
Thats fantastic, but try doing what you do on a farm that won’t carry cows this time of year. By the time we could get our cows on it the grass would be crappy & half rotten. So for us we’ll stick to the sheep eating it.

Seen it and heard it all before
Can’t get cows out then there driving across there fields putting slurry out or they’ve still got beef cows out in it till xmas

In the pit · Jan 14, 2022

When there’s a hard frost cows can go straight out after morning milking and as the frost starts to lift bring them in
That’ll all depend wether the sheep are brought in to clear of any grass or you own your own flock of ewes to lamb

som farmer · Jan 14, 2022

In the pit said:
Crappy half rotten stuff this grass .where’s the sheep
Still , analysis is better than your best silage @som farmer

2nd cut silage, and been grazed by sheep before 1st cut.
and perfectly happy with it, first cut was similar, 3rd was 18% p, haven't sampled 4th and 5th cuts.
Could have been full of dead, brown crappy grass, but thanks to those sheep, it was all nice fresh green leaf's.
1st cut 17 apr, 2nd 31 may.
so l think l will still stick to grazing those sheep, on my crappy grass, and save the new good stuff for my cows. Who just happen to be milking extremely well.
what suits one, doesn't necessarily suit another.

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