Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
All things Dairy
- Thread starter Cows 'n grass
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organicguy
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- Location
- North East of the south west
Silage will need some protein to balance it?That feeling you get when you check the feed loft and it's still 2/3 full
Opened the first of the second cut today, looks and smells nice
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Tomorrow’s TB test will lead the way. Have culled a few already. But production is already pretty poor.
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Possibly, might be 18% or could be 10% protein so not really sure, still grazing during the day now so hopefully a decent drop of protein in that still and then some poison in the parlour to top them up based on stage of lactation and yield
Pd yet?
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Good luck, mines next week, terrified is an understatement
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Will you consider drying off earlier ?
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that. Looks a proper pansy to me.
Looks like some of the johnes sh!t we had a few years ago
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
It is but would make a nice rug
pine_guy
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- Location
- North Cumbria
I remember you make outdoor pens with them, is that right? How do you make a covered area.
Holsteinfriesian90
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- Location
- Cornwall
I’ve never understood why people use wagyu. Looks like you would get more meat on a friesian steer.
14ft sheets of tin. Will pic tomorrow
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
No from July onwards is when we make our free cash regardless of feed cost. We may get rid of empties earlier. Pding in two weeks.
Swapped our wheat for standing maize
And have bought extra hay today
Also mulling over buying 180 tons of PK
Some of the cap ex is going to have to wait. If not all of it.
I want an easy winter/spring financially at least.
in a couple of weeks its gone from being possibly our best ever to just trying to get our stock to turn out next spring looking well. Strange times
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Very strange times, what price is pk atm?
Can I be nosy and ask what you're feeding to your spring calvers cake wise?
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
To replace forage?
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Yes
Currently got 180 acres of 2nd cut growing and hopefully it will make up the 40% of silage I Currently don't have, have sold 90% of my culls, will pick rest when I pd, how do you feel your mating has gone? Think will end up with sub 5% MT, if the collars are correct.