- Location
- North West
Does anyone feed their heifers TMR if so how many rations do you feed to the different ages. I'd like to feed weaning to 9m with the diet feeder to get away from chucking a lot of nuts on top of straw or silage.
Feeding heifers TMR
- Thread starter DairyGrazing
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rusty
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- Location
- Buxton Derbyshire
We give them the milking cow TMR (M+25 litres)from about 4 months of age. Initially we top dress with the rearer nuts they were on previously and reduce this as TMR intake increases. Usually on TMR only by 6 months of age.
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buffalo_soldier
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- Location
- cumbria
Yeah, 3kg of milkers blend mixed with 50:50 silage/wholecrop.
Drop it to 2kg and top dress for a couple weeks before turnout to get them bag trained.
Drop it to 2kg and top dress for a couple weeks before turnout to get them bag trained.
Was just looking around and found this, we're organic and I use the misery wagon to fill troughs for my bulling heifers.
They've just come off grazing fodder beet and are being AI at the moment I think they could do with a bit more energy and am thinking of getting some rolled barley to chuck in?
Good idea /bad idea?/how much for 350-400kg heifers
They've just come off grazing fodder beet and are being AI at the moment I think they could do with a bit more energy and am thinking of getting some rolled barley to chuck in?
Good idea /bad idea?/how much for 350-400kg heifers
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
1-2kg won't hurt them and will certainly help increase growth rates even if it makes no difference to conception, but I'd bet it would. 3 weeks prior to ai mine get an extra half a kg until they're in calf then they get nothing until calving
