Looking for an experienced calf rearer
In charge of all youngstock from birth to 12 weeks
250 calves a year: holstein heifers, belgian blues and angus calves
Holm & Laue automatic calf feeders
Combination of calf igloos and 5 calf hutches
Coloquick for colostrum pasturisation
Dehorning, ear...
Can't determine which at this stage. Will continue to monitor and analyse, and pass on results when we know.
Our second trial strip is "fertiliser and digestate" vs "only digestate", so that will tell us more.
Different growing conditions each year will obviously impact the effect (or not) of...
^Posted too soon
Let me know if you're interested in updates of our trials later in the year. This is my first time posting, as thought our digestate trials might be interesting to some people.
Maize on 10th June
Trial strip had no digestate, whereas the rest of the field did (from farm fed AD plant - maize, rye, FYM, slurry and potatoes).
Everything else the same - fertiliser injected when drilled.
We've also done a trial in another field of digestate only (applied before drilling)...
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