Any one else tried this and do you think it works?

[Sir loin]

I feed my cows their haylage in the evening between 6 and 7 oclock to make them mostly calve throughout the day. They fill their bellys and cud throughout the night. I recon I' am at 80% out of 12 cows calved up to now that have calved through the day.

 

[ShooTa]

when i fed conc to the sheep i found that evening feeding certainly reduced overnight issues. very few lambed overnight too.

 

[M-J-G]

I feed my cows their haylage in the evening between 6 and 7 oclock to make them mostly calve throughout the day. They fill their bellys and cud throughout the night. I recon I' am at 80% out of 12 cows calved up to now that have calved through the day.

I've generally found it to work pretty well

 

[thom]

It won't eliminate night calving or lambing but we found it reduces it very well

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Used to do it with strip grazing and rarely had one calve overnight.

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Interest,

 

[steveR]

Used to do it with strip grazing and rarely had one calve overnight.

As in move the strip fence access, late on?

 

[Dave6170]

Calve our heifers inside and only feed at night time. It definitely works.

 

[Cowslip]

We feed ours around 6pm, most calve during the day now.

 

[aangus]

when i fed conc to the sheep i found that evening feeding certainly reduced overnight issues. very few lambed overnight too.

Approximately what time would you feed them please?

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

Can't do it with cows as they're just on ad lib silage but do it with sheep and I'm sure it works

 

[Samcowman]

Do it here and it works. The key is to make sure they run out about lunchtime. Knew someone that tried it but they never ran out of feed so even though fed last thing it didn’t work.

 

[Suffolksucklers]

We are doing it this year and seemed to think it was working. However other night we had three calf at 10pm, one backwards one big bull but all ok. Left at eleven, went back at four to find another one with her dead calf and she had prolapsed great start to the day

 

[Optimus]

Is this once a day feeding?

 

[Fendt516profi]

Approximately what time would you feed them please?

You just got in from checking sheep

 

[Poorbuthappy]

As in move the strip fence access, late on?

Yes. Kept them pretty tight and moved them early to mid evening time. Fits with what @Samcowman says running out of feed.

 

[aangus]

You just got in from checking sheep

How did you know

 

[Fendt516profi]

How did you know

The hint of desperation in your message

 

[Woolless]

I don't lamb many inside but those that are get fed when I let the dogs out just before turning in. I don't check again until 0700. There's often a very fresh lamb but any issues generally haven't had time to develop into a disaster, as the feed seems to knock everything back a few hours. Worth doing, I would say.
I have six heifers in to calve currently, on adlib hay/silage. If they weren't in such good nick, I'd be giving them a little cake at bedtime too.

 

[Old Tup]

I feed my cows their haylage in the evening between 6 and 7 oclock to make them mostly calve throughout the day. They fill their bellys and cud throughout the night. I recon I' am at 80% out of 12 cows calved up to now that have calved through the day.

Yes it works perfectly........