Feeding

[Rossymons]

1litre = 1.026kgs

1.02 or 1.03 depends on wether your buying or selling!

The PC is still outperforming the bulk tank by 25%. We do all our costings and numbers from the milk cheque but that needs looking at. I'll speak to the parlour guy tomorrow and look into it.

Would peak milk yield not be 100 DIM?

Are you not cutting back too soon? I would not cut back until well into serving

So I have an excuse - its what i've always done. But hear me out...

When I came home to look after the cows after college we were spending a fortune on cake - cake in parlour, OOPFs and a blend in the ration and it was costing us a fortune. So I started cutting back about 60 days. I chose 60 days as our cows have a very flat lactation curve so the milk they do at 60 DIM would pretty much be the same at 200 DIM. Theyre pretty good at holding condition so didn't want to end up with overfat cows.

I've ditched the blend in ration and the OOPFs are history too (boot of the bin rotted out and its not being replaced) so inparlour feed is now the only route.Our feed rate is currently 0.22 which i'm happy with. But if 0.25 gives us a greater margin then lets do it. This year with a decent price expected wouldn't be a stupid idea to try. I'll do some numbers and see whats what.

I keep building till serving, then hold at a constant till the bulls come out.

How much would you be feeding at peak?

 

[multi power]

The PC is still outperforming the bulk tank by 25%. We do all our costings and numbers from the milk cheque but that needs looking at. I'll speak to the parlour guy tomorrow and look into it.





So I have an excuse - its what i've always done. But hear me out...

When I came home to look after the cows after college we were spending a fortune on cake - cake in parlour, OOPFs and a blend in the ration and it was costing us a fortune. So I started cutting back about 60 days. I chose 60 days as our cows have a very flat lactation curve so the milk they do at 60 DIM would pretty much be the same at 200 DIM. Theyre pretty good at holding condition so didn't want to end up with overfat cows.

I've ditched the blend in ration and the OOPFs are history too (boot of the bin rotted out and its not being replaced) so inparlour feed is now the only route.Our feed rate is currently 0.22 which i'm happy with. But if 0.25 gives us a greater margin then lets do it. This year with a decent price expected wouldn't be a stupid idea to try. I'll do some numbers and see whats what.



How much would you be feeding at peak?

What meters do you have? We got meters serviced and calibrated, but they still don't match tanker ticket, but as said litres/kgs, I might get calculater out

 

[Beef farmer]

@Rossymons going to aim for 8kgs if they can't eat it as quick as I can milk them, then il go 7kg

 

[Rossymons]

What meters do you have? We got meters serviced and calibrated, but they still don't match tanker ticket, but as said litres/kgs, I might get calculater out

Westfalia ones installed with the parlour. That was 16 years ago.

@Rossymons going to aim for 8kgs if they can't eat it as quick as I can milk them, then il go 7kg

Not too different to here then. An extra 30 days worth of 8kgs won't cost the earth - being realistic its only an extra 30 days of 3kgs as I would be feeding 5-6kgs during 60-100DIM anyway

 

[Beef farmer]

Westfalia ones installed with the parlour. That was 16 years ago.



Not too different to here then. An extra 30 days worth of 8kgs won't cost the earth - being realistic its only an extra 30 days of 3kgs as I would be feeding 5-6kgs during 60-100DIM anyway

I will feed that until mid Jan.

 

[Rossymons]

I will feed that until mid Jan.

Change from 5k on top of my feed bill with my fag packet numbers. I think the girls have the potential to earn it back.

 

[Beef farmer]

Change from 5k on top of my feed bill with my fag packet numbers. I think the girls have the potential to earn it back.

In milk and fertility results.

 

[Rossymons]

In milk and fertility results.

I'll aim for the milk as I can count that daily...any extra Jersx pregs will be a bonus

 

[Farmersdaughter]

We feed to yield in parlour. I can see arguments for and against. If we were block calving and very similar cows in herd would not. We are AYR calving and have a real mixed bag of cows, both yield, size and breed. I condition score cows monthly and adjust feed depending on condition, fertility, DiM etc. The main advantages I find is getting less fat cows late in lactation, while feeding those who are giving more milk than they could with feed outside parlour.