Sir loin
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If you calve your homebred heifers at 2 years old, how and what do you feed them on from weaning to service ?
Ad lb hay and 1kg of 33% protien pellet with 2kg mollassed rolled barley each from Weaning at 8 months in late December while inside until March. I reckon it builds frame amd then they put on weight at grass to get to 380 fo 400 kg ready for service from mid June onwards,If you calve your homebred heifers at 2 years old, how and what do you feed them on from weaning to service ?
Ad lb hay and 1kg of 33% protien pellet with 2kg mollassed rolled barley each from Weaning at 8 months in late December while inside until March. I reckon it builds frame amd then they put on weight at grass to get to 380 fo 400 kg ready for service from mid June onwards,
What weight are your cow's? Sounds very heavy at bulling to me, we bull dairy hefiers at 280/300 kg , 475/525 kg cow'sOur (herefordx) heifers get nothing but grass or silage. If they can't get to 360 kg + by 14 months you have to ask if they're good enough to keep. Most of the ones we bull are nearer 380/400 kg by then in actual fact. .
As @GTB says here, hay and silage if there not 350 kg+ at 14 months somethings wrong.
420-450 kg here for bulling, ive got away with 360 kg but that was on growthy empty sorts of heifers, anything less on sucklers and youll be left with very small cows.