All things Dairy

[Beef farmer]

How much concentrate are people budgeting for average peak of 31litres 3.5protein 4.5 butterfat?
Attempting to do some budgeting for going forward ….

We will feed 6kg and achieve 24l @ 5% and 4%
Self feed silage, which I guess will mean 1kg of that cake is offsetting self starvation

All down to making some 11.8+ 15% protien silage. Cut last day of April and every 28 days there after. The idea of bulk to dilute machinery and fert costs is attractive, but its a long winter if you've crap forage

 

[Headless chicken]

So presume your talking housed. So 12.5-15 from forage.
16 from cake 16*.4. 6.5kg.
So 6.5-7.5 kg

Yes sorry should’ve said this is for this autumn winter.
Edit and thank you. We’ve got a nutritionist for this winter that’s independent as the cost of her versus gain is well worth it but still need to work out a rough plan

 

[Sid]

Off to a flying start, grazed last Monday

 

[Headless chicken]

We will feed 6kg and achieve 24l @ 5% and 4%
Self feed silage, which I guess will mean 1kg of that cake is offsetting self starvation

All down to making some 11.8+ 15% protien silage. Cut last day of April and every 28 days there after. The idea of bulk to dilute machinery and fert costs is attractive, but its a long winter if you've crap forage

How did the stuff turn out that you cut may 10th ish time?
We’ve had a really late spring here and won’t be cutting until about the 12th of may this year. In theory all before average heading dates

 

[Beef farmer]

How did the stuff turn out that you cut may 10th ish time?
We’ve had a really late spring here and won’t be cutting until about the 12th of may this year. In theory all before average heading dates

28th April last year. Maybe 26th

 

[Ducati899]

Being blunt?

cow killers. Mad calves and not suitable for block calving

spent years breeding showing and selling pedigree lims,would never use them on our dairy

 

[Ducati899]

Anyone on here using a shear bucket? Shear grab is needing replacing and was wondering what’s peoples opinions on them

Used shear buckets since 1996,wouldn’t have anything else

 

[Grassman247]

Yes sorry should’ve said this is for this autumn winter.
Edit and thank you. We’ve got a nutritionist for this winter that’s independent as the cost of her versus gain is well worth it but still need to work out a rough plan

We feed 8kg’s of 18% for 32 litres, 3.5P and 4.5BF just grass silage and brewers grains for winter ration

 

[Martyn]

Definitely not that long.

I topped my bin up in January because of a price rise in February. There was still some December cake under this in the bin and by early March the whole lot was mouldy and I had to bin it. It may have been a bad load that was delivered hot? I'll never know but it caused a lot of problems.

What would you think about adding a high protein cake when clamping down the crimp pit in July, mixing maby 1t of cake to 4t of crimp? Only other option I can think of to store Protien really.

 

[coomoo]

We feed 8kg’s of 18% for 32 litres, 3.5P and 4.5BF just grass silage and brewers grains for winter ration

Peaks 32 ltrs?

 

[Grassman247]

Peaks 32 ltrs?

Yep down to very little cake at turnout

 

[crashbox]

What are most people using to put out temp. electric fence polywire? Just by hand with geared reel? Or from the quad bike?

Got some 300m long strip grazed breaks, gets a but tedious with the walking for 2 breaks a day... #lazy

 

[Jdunn55]

3 of my favourites just come in together, premier 3rd calver, chad heifer (about to go dry) and an elijah heifer

 

[lazy farmer]

3 of my favourites just come in together, premier 3rd calver, chad heifer (about to go dry) and an elijah heifer

Your not milking now are you ?

 

[Jdunn55]

Your not milking now are you ?

Indeed I am...

 

[Jdunn55]

Cow from yesterday

 

[vantage]

What are most people using to put out temp. electric fence polywire? Just by hand with geared reel? Or from the quad bike?

Got some 300m long strip grazed breaks, gets a but tedious with the walking for 2 breaks a day... #lazy

Clip insulated end of Zammr handle onto electric fence, drive down field holding reel, clip reel onto fence or tree or bush at the other side of the break, tension up, turn around, stick posts in from box on back of quad, get to start, clip metal part of Zammr to the electric fence, job done. Use solar fencers where we don’t have mains electric fences. Takes about 5 minutes to put fence up, max.

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

3 of my favourites just come in together, premier 3rd calver, chad heifer (about to go dry) and an elijah heifer

How do you like the premiers? We did some sample pots last month and I was surprised how low they are on constituents.

 

[Rossymons]

Indeed I am...

Dare we ask why? You haven't gone from 3 in 2 milking to 3 in 1 milking have you?

 

[lizness]

We haven’t found that here but each to there own.

'neither have we, well perhaps the mad calves bit! We sell quite a few heifers to go as sucklers and they like the lim's over the blues as the have a bit more go about them!