Cattle won’t graze.
- Thread starter Ian1890
- Start date
- Location
- East Sussex
Straw..... want their guts filling.
- Location
- Ceredigion
Is there any yellowing on the grass , I had a problem last year , bad Rust infection , cattle would not touch it
- Location
- Shropshire
Leave them to it if they been inside from calves will take a bit of time
- Location
- Ceredigion
Mine would have starved to death before eating it 2 year old dairy heifers
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Changing feed sometimes takes time. I don't know about cattle but I use carrots to train horses. Foals won't touch them at first. I sprinkle grated carrot on soaked sugar beet pulp to get them going. It's like kids and beer!
Scatter chopped grass over their usual feed?
Scatter chopped grass over their usual feed?
- Location
- Huntingdon
could it be that the grass is deficient in something making it bitter?
- Location
- South Molton
you bought some cattle now?
- Location
- Ceredigion
- Location
- South Molton
You going to calve them down and sell them or sell them as in calf?
What bull have you put them to?
Guess they are holsteins given they dont like grass much?
- Location
- Ceredigion
funny you mention that....we had a batch of 2nd cut silage bales last year which the beasts really didn't fancy.
It was well made- drier than some people would like-, a thick leafy sward, if a couple of weeks over the top...I wonder if that was the problem.
Mind, when the cold wet May left us short....sucklers cleaned it up then.
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Firstly if cattle or sheep won’t graze a field the first question is does it need lime?
Seen it many many times an acid pasture they do not like.
Seen it many many times an acid pasture they do not like.
- Location
- Western Washington
The only other thing I would mentioned as it has not been mentioned already is what is the N level of the grass. To much N and animals will not graze those areas for a year or so until the extra N has been used up by the plants growing on it.
- Location
- East Sussex
What species of grass is this lush stuff?
We made some Hay off an old ley that had sterile brome in and it looked green and lush after mowing but nothing ate it or the Hay we made from it!!
We made some Hay off an old ley that had sterile brome in and it looked green and lush after mowing but nothing ate it or the Hay we made from it!!
- Location
- South Molton
You going to calve them down and sell them or sell them as in calf?
- Location
- Ceredigion
Crown Rust is now recognised as one of the most serious leaf
diseases of grass capable of devastating pastures. Once the
disease takes a hold there can be a noticeable reduction in tillering
and root growth and the foliage will turn yellow. Palatability can
be badly affected with stock refusing to eat a heavily infected
pasture. The re-growth and response to nitrogen can also be hit
by crown rust. Once confined to the south and west, the disease
seems to be steadily moving northwards; possibly as a result of
global warming.
diseases of grass capable of devastating pastures. Once the
disease takes a hold there can be a noticeable reduction in tillering
and root growth and the foliage will turn yellow. Palatability can
be badly affected with stock refusing to eat a heavily infected
pasture. The re-growth and response to nitrogen can also be hit
by crown rust. Once confined to the south and west, the disease
seems to be steadily moving northwards; possibly as a result of
global warming.
