Feeding my dairy cows

Rodgerdodger

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Livestock Farmer
Location
York
I use to relief milk for someone who learnt his trade (very well) from a several times over Grassland Manager of the Year.
His motto was always, "keep it simple".
Glad you have made some headway with it!
 
Basically we added a moist feed took some of the blend out changed the parlour cake upped the maize slightly they are now eating 10 kg a day more silage than they were with the moist feed added they eat and lie down full where as before they would wander about not content at all
What's your feed rate now compared to before? sounds great progress
 

Grazer

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Location
SW Scotland
Protein prices are ever frightening. Rape 318, DDG 316, Hipro 465.

I picked a real good year not to have too much forward booked!

Hipro still works out cheaper too, but £13,000 a load!

Already maxing out feed grade urea and pot ale. Anyone got any suggestions?
 

More to life

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Location
Somerset
Protein prices are ever frightening. Rape 318, DDG 316, Hipro 465.

I picked a real good year not to have too much forward booked!

Hipro still works out cheaper too, but £13,000 a load!

Already maxing out feed grade urea and pot ale. Anyone got any suggestions?
Field beans can you mill on farm ?
 

pappuller

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Livestock Farmer
Location
M6 Hard shoulder
Protein prices are ever frightening. Rape 318, DDG 316, Hipro 465.

I picked a real good year not to have too much forward booked!

Hipro still works out cheaper too, but £13,000 a load!

Already maxing out feed grade urea and pot ale. Anyone got any suggestions?
What forages are you feeding ?
 

Grazer

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Location
SW Scotland
30 odd kg Grass silage and 8 kg maize silage. The pot ale covers the moist feed angle. Still needing a kick of something else to get the protein level up.
 

som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
Field beans can you mill on farm ?
yes, but better ground than rolled, max 2kg/cow a day, we have been talking this through today ! Although i have found the opposite, beans don't feed to well, i disagree, but. The best home grown protien, are lupins, but as yet, not reliable, if they were, the arable boys would be diving in, peas are the 'easiest', but you need acres of them, the conclusion was buy the protien in. For the first time for years, we are growing barley, 15/18 acres, as have taken on more land, the opportunity is there, with wheat passing £200, and straw at a price that is hard to swallow, looked a good idea for y/s feed, Hench looking at peas/beans, for the protien side. The biggest problem is simply having the ground to grow enough.
 

More to life

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Location
Somerset
yes, but better ground than rolled, max 2kg/cow a day, we have been talking this through today ! Although i have found the opposite, beans don't feed to well, i disagree, but. The best home grown protien, are lupins, but as yet, not reliable, if they were, the arable boys would be diving in, peas are the 'easiest', but you need acres of them, the conclusion was buy the protien in. For the first time for years, we are growing barley, 15/18 acres, as have taken on more land, the opportunity is there, with wheat passing £200, and straw at a price that is hard to swallow, looked a good idea for y/s feed, Hench looking at peas/beans, for the protien side. The biggest problem is simply having the ground to grow enough.

I've found they freed really well at 2kg there rolled and home grown.
 

Grazer

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Location
SW Scotland
5kg pot ale and 80g fgu. I was told 80 or 90 would be the limit, but my grass silage has loads of sugar in it, so might lift it a bit.

Dont feed any parlour cake, so I'll need something with a higher protein than gluten. I did get a price for beans, but shied away from the hastle of rolling. What's the CP of them, 28?
 

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