I ran out of silage this time and the ground was to wet to turn out so I zero grazed with my front mower and wagon I went in an morning and at night it took half an hour a load tipped out at the feed passage and just kept pushing it up with the grab it got me out of the sh!t for 4 weeks
Advice with zero grazing.
- Thread starter lazy farmer
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I left the blades out and just picked it up, I noticed any grass on the feed fence I ran over or bruised they ate last so I had the telehandler boom right out and just nudged it into them once they were full it worked really well and it may well work better than grazing here!!
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
It’s a lovely job in big covers but get into lawn mowings and it’s a good way to wear your wagon pick up reel out picking up 4 acres+ a day 10ft at a time.
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
When we were big in the game we had a specialist machine which lightly chopped the grass, with a forage wagon, knives out and don't over compress the grass.
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Are you feeding through the feeder ?
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Troughs or barrier ?
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Troughs
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
I can guarantee its the weather, not your management if it makes you feel any better.
Unless of course your name is actually noah wnd you've been building an arc?
The weather !No silage about . Running out of fields to damage.Other fields to long to graze!Just a crappy spring
If the fields are to wet to graze won't the tractor make more mess. Ours is a very wet farm. 60 inches of rain a year and I wouldn't be able to get a tractor on the fields on a day that was to wet to turn the cows out. Could you not undergraze now and tidy up with a bit of pre mowing and taking a few bales later. We purposely leave a lot of grass behind and I'm sure some would not approve but we still grow piles of grass and that reserve comes in handy during the drier months. Try not to stress. Easier said than done I know.
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
The land we are cutting is 7 miles away and a very different soil type.
We have done plenty of what you describe already
Ducati899
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- Location
- north dorset
The weather !No silage about . Running out of fields to damage.Other fields to long to graze!Just a crappy spring
worse than 2012 here in my opinion
Ducati899
Member
- Location
- north dorset
This little baby for sub £500 is currently getting me out of the 5hit big time,started at a tonne mixed in the wagon and now upto just over 3 tonne,mixed in with maize & grass silage
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
You may find it stays in the troughs better if it is chopped, they will pull a %out
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Cows look very well
happycows
Member
- Location
- North Devon Cornwall border
Long thin pile. Needs to be cleared in 24hours but if half is gone in 12 then it’ll stay cooler.
Avoid any chopping and conditioning or damaging the grass as much as possible.
That will be the key to it not heating up.
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Thank you your very kind. despite my best efforts they have milked well on a solids basis this spring.Cows look very well
Headless chicken
Member
- Location
- West Wales
Feck me know wonder your all buying fendts if they are only £500 a pop.
Excellent looking cattle not what I would consider your typical “spring block cow”
holywell farmer
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- Location
- holywell, north wales
2012 was wetHave you had to rehouse yours cow's? Looks like a rerun of 2012 here, flecked up at least one paddock now ( thankfully it near the top of the list of paddocks to reseed) and could be more if the long range weather is a bad as it looks out in t9 mid June
