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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 7144970" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>4 years ago, we drilled, an all singing and dancing, high sugar grass ley, we had plenty of holstiens then, they hated it, unhappy, bawling, and completely stripped all reachable hedge, day 2, we put a bale of straw out, they ate that, before starting on the grass, milk dropped 200 litres, then gave up with dairy, and put y/stock on it, they kept getting out, so we baled it.</p><p> As we did a major turnover of hols to xbred, the xbred's loved it, and milk went up. For the hols, it was just to pokey, and gave them acidosis, learn't a very good lesson on that. Seeing we have been really short of grass, all summer, what grass there has been, has been excellent, but, we have fed 100 ton of hay all summer, for two reasons, first to try and slow the grazing round, and secondly, to try and keep the grass in the cows longer ! We are told to utilise grass, at the 3 leaf stage, which, some of the time, when we have had some rain, we have achieved, and left longer residuals, but that good grass, flies out the back end, telling me, they need 'something' to slow it down.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 7144970, member: 86168"] 4 years ago, we drilled, an all singing and dancing, high sugar grass ley, we had plenty of holstiens then, they hated it, unhappy, bawling, and completely stripped all reachable hedge, day 2, we put a bale of straw out, they ate that, before starting on the grass, milk dropped 200 litres, then gave up with dairy, and put y/stock on it, they kept getting out, so we baled it. As we did a major turnover of hols to xbred, the xbred's loved it, and milk went up. For the hols, it was just to pokey, and gave them acidosis, learn't a very good lesson on that. Seeing we have been really short of grass, all summer, what grass there has been, has been excellent, but, we have fed 100 ton of hay all summer, for two reasons, first to try and slow the grazing round, and secondly, to try and keep the grass in the cows longer ! We are told to utilise grass, at the 3 leaf stage, which, some of the time, when we have had some rain, we have achieved, and left longer residuals, but that good grass, flies out the back end, telling me, they need 'something' to slow it down. [/QUOTE]
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