'Grazing' with a forage wagon

[Davy]

This NIS. Would you recommend it over the likes of soya hulls or palm kernel to help keep fresh grass in cows? It's of a similar price

 

[pappuller]

Nutrionaly inhanced straw.

come on @Beef farmer its improved straw not inhanced, your halo is slipping

 

[Beef farmer]

I've had the sales pitch about it, and it was just a sales pitch.

For me it was the farmer in Ireland 0 grazing for 300 days his 11000 litre holstiens feeding 3.5kg of nis and holding his bf @4.5%.

Some of the slides on a presentation on it show trials done, and the difference in ndf avaliable to the rumen in soya hulls,pk, oats, straw and nis is an eye opener.

Time will tell. On paper or in a nutrionists programme, 4.6%protein and 6.5 me, you would never feed it to cows. It is 10ph tho.

 

[Beef farmer]

come on @Beef farmer its improved straw not inhanced, your halo is slipping

It's just a fecking straw pellet and some sodium, and there managing to sell it.

Fools and there money are easily parted.

 

[pappuller]

It's just a fecking straw pellet and some sodium, and there managing to sell it.

Fools and there money are easily parted.

We used it years ago, waste o time in our system just another snake oil sales pitch !

 

[Davy]

Have a friend who was feeding chopped straw through the TMR and was struggling with fat. Swapped it for NIS and it make a fair difference. It isn't cheap though at £140 I believe.

 

[Friesianfan]

Have a friend who was feeding chopped straw through the TMR and was struggling with fat. Swapped it for NIS and it make a fair difference. It isn't cheap though at £140 I believe.

 

[Beef farmer]

Have a friend who was feeding chopped straw through the TMR and was struggling with fat. Swapped it for NIS and it make a fair difference. It isn't cheap though at £140 I believe.

Location dependant. We're going to feed 1.5kgs. So less than a penny a litre. Bf is worth 2.2ppl per %. And the ratio is worth just under 2ppl. So if it keeps our solids up slightly it's a no brainer. If it doesn't then I've wasted a months worth of grub.
When we can graze only with out the 0 grazer I'd like to drop it out. Time will tell

 

[pappuller]

Have a friend who was feeding chopped straw through the TMR and was struggling with fat. Swapped it for NIS and it make a fair difference. It isn't cheap though at £140 I believe.

We dont need nis or straw this year we've just made shite silage, fats 4.25

 

[Beef farmer]

You can't buy feeding straw for less than 80, then process it and feed it, your at 100. Then they won't eat it because grass is more palatable. 140 for NIS. Blown and mixed with a cake, fed through the parlour with no wastage. There's bigger cons in this job.

 

[Suckndiesel]

You can't buy feeding straw for less than 80, then process it and feed it, your at 100. Then they won't eat it because grass is more palatable. 140 for NIS. Blown and mixed with a cake, fed through the parlour with no wastage. There's bigger cons in this job.

Never heard of this NIS until now, would you feed it instead of a concentrate or would you still need concentrates as well?

 

[Beef farmer]

Never heard of this NIS until now, would you feed it instead of a concentrate or would you still need concentrates as well?

We shall mix a bit of concentrate to start, and then just feed nis. If the cows are still milking well, then we will keep mixing the Concs in.

 

[Suckndiesel]

We shall mix a bit of concentrate to start, and then just feed nis. If the cows are still milking well, then we will keep mixing the Concs in.

I take it would help stiffen the dung up? When on full grass and zero grazing here the cows are very loose, only feeding around 3 kg of concentrate