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<blockquote data-quote="crashbox" data-source="post: 8131020" data-attributes="member: 143639"><p>[USER=90174]@Slowcow[/USER] we are doing the same, due to a dry farm making spring/summer grass challenging. TB makes buying and selling difficult.</p><p>Here's my approach...</p><p></p><p>- For cows already in the correct block (say calving Aug to Oct) breed hard to sexed, then stragglers to beef.</p><p>- Stop serving Feb/March before turnout, so we get a xmas break.</p><p>- Serve all spring calvers to beef only (or in my case beef bulls) for 12 weeks (May to July), then have a Summer break.</p><p>- Weigh and target-feed heifer calves to push them on or hold them back to fit the Autumn and Spring blocks, again using sexed semen for Autumn and beef for Spring. </p><p></p><p>Means running split block for a couple of years and by year 3 I'll have something resembling a main autumn block and small spring block.</p><p></p><p>I'm year 2 now, no calvings in July/Aug this year, calving profile becoming quite "peaky".</p><p></p><p>Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="crashbox, post: 8131020, member: 143639"] [USER=90174]@Slowcow[/USER] we are doing the same, due to a dry farm making spring/summer grass challenging. TB makes buying and selling difficult. Here's my approach... - For cows already in the correct block (say calving Aug to Oct) breed hard to sexed, then stragglers to beef. - Stop serving Feb/March before turnout, so we get a xmas break. - Serve all spring calvers to beef only (or in my case beef bulls) for 12 weeks (May to July), then have a Summer break. - Weigh and target-feed heifer calves to push them on or hold them back to fit the Autumn and Spring blocks, again using sexed semen for Autumn and beef for Spring. Means running split block for a couple of years and by year 3 I'll have something resembling a main autumn block and small spring block. I'm year 2 now, no calvings in July/Aug this year, calving profile becoming quite "peaky". Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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