Fodder beet

[Ray]

We have some nice clean fodder beet for sale here in N.Yorks... If anyone's interested please pm me with a postcode for a delivered price..

 

[jimmer]

50 quid

 

[jimmer]

If ,if ,if I offered it ad lib .......

 

[pappuller]

50 quid

surely its too dear on a dm basis at 50 ???

 

[Cows 'n grass]

If ,if ,if I offered it ad lib .......

......then they'd fall over and never get up again.

I had a couple break through a double fence two years ago and they never recovered.

 

[Shep]

surely its too dear on a dm basis at 50 ???

Yes it is but a round bale of silage is near £50 and a 8x4x4 of straw is £130, seen maize silage adverised at £100 ton.

 

[Cows 'n grass]

Palm kernal is still available at about £140/t, I would have thought that was a much better value forage extender.

 

[pappuller]

Yes it is but a round bale of silage is near £50 and a 8x4x4 of straw is £130, seen maize silage adverised at £100 ton.

Time to cull some cow's and sell some fodder me thinks.

 

[pine_guy]

last time I used unwashed I made 20%of herd sick and wasn't even at high levels . washed and chopped here and no problems

Sick with what ?

 

[Beef farmer]

......then they'd fall over and never get up again.

I had a couple break through a double fence two years ago and they never recovered.

But if built up slowly no problem. Cattle on adlib beet will fly.

 

[Rossymons]

Ours was fed straight from the field. We piled it up in one small trough and found the cows were fairly self regulating with regards to intakes. One kiwi ran off with one the size my head and nibbled on it all day carrying it with her the whole time.

I loved it and so did the cows. The odd one that would get RAMMED up the slurry tanker pipe not so much...

 

[awkward]

Sick with what ?

it seemed the clay /soil on the beet didn't agree with them and scoured them for a few days @Only 5kg day can get easily 20kg with it washed and no upsets

 

[Ray]

it seemed the clay /soil on the beet didn't agree with them and scoured them for a few days @Only 5kg day can get easily 20kg with it washed and no upsets

If there was clay / soil on the beet it must not have been cleaned either. Our beet isn't washed but is cleaned and graded for clods and stones. There is only staining on the beet with no soil.

 

[Sid]

......then they'd fall over and never get up again.

I had a couple break through a double fence two years ago and they never recovered.

That would be the tops rather than the bulb?

 

[Beef farmer]

That would be the tops rather than the bulb?

Most sensible comment you've made in the last 7 days Sidney.

 

[Cows 'n grass]

That would be the tops rather than the bulb?

Most sensible comment you've made in the last 7 days Sidney.

Not sure about that.

Once they've been on them a few weeks there pretty well aclimatized to them. The poisoning from the tops is basically an induced milk fever and they drop dead very quickly whereas the two I lost were clinical acidosis type symptoms, sh!tting water, no appetite and down, never to get up again within a couple of days.

 

[ollie989898]

Not sure about that.

Once they've been on them a few weeks there pretty well aclimatized to them. The poisoning from the tops is basically an induced milk fever and they drop dead very quickly whereas the two I lost were clinical acidosis type symptoms, sh!tting water, no appetite and down, never to get up again within a couple of days.

Lots of water soluble carbohydrates, as you say, need to be wary.

 

[scholland]

I love Beef + Lamb New Zealand podcasts | Jim Gibbs: Making the most of fodder beet, let's play it!
http://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mpxhc-6006d1

Good fodder beet info

 

[ISCO]

Fodder beet washed and delivered around £30 / ton around here.

 

[Shep]

Fodder beet washed and delivered around £30 / ton around here.

Thats what it normally is but it aint normal round here.