jimmer
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- East Devon
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Guess it’s less to carry, but a faff if it jams.
jimmer
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- Location
- East Devon
Game changer since I was sent that video
Only jams if too knotty and reeled up by a muppet
jimmer
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- Location
- East Devon
If your fussy and like straight lines then the only quick way is a reel at both ends but I've never had a cow complain about a wonky fence
Work smart not hard...get someone else to do it while you stand by & watch/film. Seems a good idea to me
jimmer
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- East Devon
Ha ha, not my video
Would be a 7 Yr old pulling wire of I was filming
Hell of a crop. How does rye normally analyse?
Humbolt forage rye being mowed today to start the 2022 forage campaign
- Location
- somerset
don't know, don't ask, outside of normal parameters, 10 samples, no sensible results, and i'm not happy.
Homesy
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- Location
- North West Devon
Is there any milk in it ?
Cows can't read the analysis so why worry.
- Location
- somerset
protein, high to low 4% to 48%, starch energy all over the place.
what l can say, cows like it, and at 30% of TMR, if it was crap, they wouldn't milk well, they are milking well.
Bulling hfrs, were getting to fat, with maize and blend, so they didn't go backwards, when on rye/vetch alone. Younger hfrs have grown very well, on it, but maize and blend, as well. So to be honest, it feeds well.
We are thinking about replacing h/rye, with w/wolds, the timing to get it in, between maize, is rather tight, and the maize last autumn, didn't ripen early enough, so w/wheat instead.
Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
Earlier samples suggested it was much closer to 11.6 me and the cows would agree. Certainly noticed it when we ran out
- Location
- somerset
and yet we couldn't get a meaningful analysis. While l didn't like not getting one, l can see the reason, a sample is only a fraction of the pit, and only a fraction of that sample is actually tested, and we know, the stem to ear ratio is very high, so a more stem, test, will produce a low reading, but the opposite, for more ear. So not really sure any of previous years analysis's were correct, they certainly varied as we went back through the pit.
Earlier samples suggested it was much closer to 11.6 me and the cows would agree. Certainly noticed it when we ran out
But like you, it has fed well, and that's about all l can say.
Would it not be the same as analysing wholecrop? (Never grown it, only maize and grass for ensiling here)
- Location
- somerset
never not had a test, not come back'
2020 as w/crop, 26 starch, but wasn't impressed
as silage-green, impressed.
Mr Jones
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- Location
- Llancwmbwlchrhydyfoncenfach
How are the Gilwen cows selling?
pine_guy
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- Location
- North Cumbria
That won’t help growith…….
munching it off reasonably well
goo too it girls
munching it off reasonably well
goo too it girls
Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
Some look pretty cheap. Not the flying sale I’d expect from the stock I expect they are