William Mellor
Member
- Location
- Peak District
My cows, like a lot of others, aren’t milking well, calve all year round, last week they were averaging 14 litres which is a big drop from 26 litres in May and normally at this time of the year are around 19-20 litres, as off last milk pick up they are now down to 8 litres. They are very short on grass, virtually none existant and are being fed as much hay as they want when they come back for milking.
This could be because on Sunday it was a p**sing it down and they didn’t want to go out so around 90% stayed in eating hay. Concentrate wise they are being fed on 16% protein which has C16 in it. I am only feeding hay due to the fact that I’m short on silage and don’t want to be feeding silage now as I wouldn’t have any to feed thro the winter. Am I to assume this is going to be short lived and they will be back to around 14 litres in the next few days or should I be worrying?
This could be because on Sunday it was a p**sing it down and they didn’t want to go out so around 90% stayed in eating hay. Concentrate wise they are being fed on 16% protein which has C16 in it. I am only feeding hay due to the fact that I’m short on silage and don’t want to be feeding silage now as I wouldn’t have any to feed thro the winter. Am I to assume this is going to be short lived and they will be back to around 14 litres in the next few days or should I be worrying?