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Conditioning cows before calving..
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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 1932320" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>I am struggling to keep my British Whites from getting too fat. It's a worry.</p><p>I have looked in the EBLEX ration calculator for a dry suckler cow and read the Teagasc literature. They only get 1 kg of home mix about 12% protein, 4 kg of mixed beet and potatoes and some very poor 2 year old meadow hay but they keep getting fatter. The home mix is mainly to get the minerals into them evenly and to keep them and the bull out the way while I'm bedding up. The old hay is nearly used up now so might switch them to rationed silage and ad lib straw, putting the minerals on the silage and forking a bit into to them each day to ration them.</p><p></p><p>Got the calving pen set up today and the race and crush for the TB test which is coming up for us just at the most inconvenient time as usual. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 1932320, member: 2119"] I am struggling to keep my British Whites from getting too fat. It's a worry. I have looked in the EBLEX ration calculator for a dry suckler cow and read the Teagasc literature. They only get 1 kg of home mix about 12% protein, 4 kg of mixed beet and potatoes and some very poor 2 year old meadow hay but they keep getting fatter. The home mix is mainly to get the minerals into them evenly and to keep them and the bull out the way while I'm bedding up. The old hay is nearly used up now so might switch them to rationed silage and ad lib straw, putting the minerals on the silage and forking a bit into to them each day to ration them. Got the calving pen set up today and the race and crush for the TB test which is coming up for us just at the most inconvenient time as usual. :( [/QUOTE]
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