All things Dairy

kiwi pom

Member
Location
canterbury NZ
Time for calving bingo.
A line is a calf born in every group of dry cows.
A full house is one in the milking herd as well.
We've achieved a full house 2 times in the last 3 years.
Hopefully heat eartags might remove the bull inaccuracy but I'm still sure we'll get 1or 2 we pull out wrong.
Talking to a fella at kids soccer this morning who'd managed to sneak away from the calving paddock for a bit to watch his boy play. Said he's had about 40 a day calve all week:eek: Not quite half way through calving yet and he's getting fed up as he's short staffed.
 

MrA.G.

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Northern Ireland
My wedge is showing the same - should be taking many fields out but there's no chance it's anywhere near right.

That makes sense. I should test the grass. That said, with the very dry weather I would have expected dry matter to be fairly high?
Not that I do, but as far as I know you should change the plate meter formula as the DM of the grass changes though the season. This should help avoid overestimating covers
 

RJ1

Member
Location
Wales
Not that I do, but as far as I know you should change the plate meter formula as the DM of the grass changes though the season. This should help avoid overestimating covers
Yes, I had just assumed that the summer formula would allow for higher dry matter, so would be further out.
 

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