"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..

[Woolless]

It's hard to see happy lines when cattle have their winter woollies on, but Buddy certainly isn't going to pieces View attachment 899360
the dairy cross steers have a bit less fluff and so it's easier to see on them.
Even the slabby big red friesians look OK but always appear "skinny" compared to the wee butterball beefies.View attachment 899362View attachment 899363

don't feel bad about having fat stock

I think they'll survive the winter, eh?

 

[Rob Garrett]

i move them daily - so must have just hit a bad hatch or something.

Keep an eye out for fly strike if their getting dirty back ends, had a bad do here with lambs & ewes last week, even got fly eggs on the electric fence!

 

[jack6480]

Is this good or bad

 

[Woolless]

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Is this good or bad

200 eggs per gram is roughly the cutoff for dosing but if they look alright, they'll be alright. I would only leave it a fortnight to re-check though.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

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Is this good or bad

Strongyles is very low.
Watch the Nemo, if they're looking well I wouldn't worry too much yet though, but in the right conditions it can snowball before you realise there's a problem.
Cocci is fairly meaningless as the test doesn't differentiate between harmless and harmful types - again use your stockman's eye.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

200 eggs per gram is roughly the cutoff for dosing but if they look alright, they'll be alright. I would only leave it a fortnight to re-check though.

I've always reckoned 400epg as the cut off, but would go higher these days depending on feed quality and perceived challenge.

 

[bendigeidfran]

I've always reckoned 400epg as the cut off, but would go higher these days depending on feed quality and perceived challenge.

I leave my replacment ewe lambs go to about 800 to 900 epg.
Give them a test, keep the best/ clean ones.
Fat lambs about 4 to 500epg

 

[Woolless]

I leave my replacment ewe lambs go to about 800 to 900 epg.
Give them a test, keep the best/ clean ones.
Fat lambs about 4 to 500epg

Good strategy.

 

[Woolless]

I've always reckoned 400epg as the cut off, but would go higher these days depending on feed quality and perceived challenge.

I was told 200, can't remember where from . You're probably right, a bit low nowadays.

 

[ShooTa]

yep got a bit of flystrike - going through the lot again today giving them a tidy - making a dag score too as theres a fair few crackers that have done well- rest have taken a hit on the weights.. could also be that the grass is fair tall, although not in heading stage...

 

[Karliboy]

Feeling good here.
cracking weather for growing grass, heavy showers lots of sun and nice and warm.
Feel like I’m getting my moves a little better every time now with left over residuals

Only thing with the heavy showers is we get little bits of poaching where they huddle up so with my meadows having very little clover I’m throwing some out with some spare old seed on top of these areas. I’m also throwing a little out in every cell just before they move so they can tread it in. Will see what happens as nothing really lost.

 

[Hard Graft]

Hand Spreader

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find this handy for small patches

 

[Henarar]

Feeling good here.
cracking weather for growing grass, heavy showers lots of sun and nice and warm.
Feel like I’m getting my moves a little better every time now with left over residuals View attachment 899604View attachment 899605
Only thing with the heavy showers is we get little bits of poaching where they huddle up so with my meadows having very little clover I’m throwing some out with some spare old seed on top of these areas. I’m also throwing a little out in every cell just before they move so they can tread it in. Will see what happens as nothing really lost.
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your lucky, been dry here and grass is slowing up but typical I go and cut our away ground this morning for second cut get back and the forecast is changed to thunder rain tomorrow

 

[tinsheet]

2nd cut red clover here, been flowering for about 10 to 14 days, fixed enough nitrogen now?

 

[Karliboy]

Only problem is now I need to move them so I can go out for tea and won’t be back untill late but the buggers are full and don’t want to move. I’ll give them another 10 mins then I’ll send them on.

 

[Henarar]

2nd cut red clover here, been flowering for about 10 to 14 days, fixed enough nitrogen now?View attachment 899660
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you had any rain today ? keep getting short scads here

 

[tinsheet]

you had any rain today ? keep getting short scads here

Odd spot, looked bloody black Taunton Bridgewater way.
Shower in Wiveliscombe so the other half said!
Rain due Tuesday currently, though I suspect that'll change in the next hr or 2

 

[Rob Garrett]

2nd cut red clover here, been flowering for about 10 to 14 days, fixed enough nitrogen now?View attachment 899660
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That looks like it's mowing well, what stubble height are you leaving? Is it pure red clover? Have got a red clover/IRG mix here and always seem to make a pigs ear of mowing second cut, try to leave 4" stubble but in the flat bits it leaves too much stem on the ground.

 

[tinsheet]

That looks like it's mowing well, what stubble height are you leaving? Is it pure red clover? Have got a red clover/IRG mix here and always seem to make a pigs ear of mowing second cut, try to leave 4" stubble but in the flat bits it leaves too much stem on the ground.

3 to 4 inches normally, but closer to 3 than 4.
Yes got a bit of IRG in there but can't see much of it, funny 1st cut was the other way round more IRG less clover. Cotswold seeds mix.
8ft Krone disc mower, always seems to leave a tidy job for me, except when cutting arable silage,

 

[Henarar]

Odd spot, looked bloody black Taunton Bridgewater way.
Shower in Wiveliscombe so the other half said!
Rain due Tuesday currently, though I suspect that'll change in the next hr or 2

its always black down taunton
forecast is all over the place at the moment