Pre calving dry cow diet

[jerseycowsman]

It seems too b working at min I put the bag in water trough and leave to dissolve

Take a close look, you'll see all the mag at the bottom, yes it will be dissolved, but it must be heavier or something. Somehow the liquid mag mixes in the water much better

 

[farmer JD]

Hey my dry cow diet is working reasonably at min, only prob is the haylage supply Is nearly ran out so I have got too find another supply ,the haylage I'm on at min is dry like hay there is no waste and cows like it, it's a fibrous hay , when sourcing new hayalage does i

 

[farmer JD]

Does it matter if it's more moist or is it important too have dry haylage ?! Can someone give me guidance please!! what I'm using at min is dry haylage like hay would b greatful

 

[More to life]

Does it matter if it's more moist or is it important too have dry haylage ?! Can someone give me guidance please!! what I'm using at min is dry haylage like hay would b greatful

Low potassium silage so basically grass cut from unfertilized ground I think is the theory.

 

[farmer JD]

So if it's moist haylage will it b ok ??i know the intakes will b higher than dry haylage just wanted some advice

 

[More to life]

So if it's moist haylage will it b ok ??i know the intakes will b higher than dry haylage just wanted some advice

Moist would be ok rocket fuel not so clever

 

[farmer JD]

Ok stuff at minute is like old haylage so it's fibrous and palatable it's not rocket fuel

 

[Beef farmer]

Low potassium silage so basically grass cut from unfertilized ground I think is the theory.

Like an airport.

 

[More to life]

Like an airport.

Most people get arrested for having grass in there hand luggage.

 

[pappuller]

Like an airport.

Not quite as good its only aviation fuel

 

[Beef farmer]

Not quite as good its only aviation fuel

They try and sell it as rocket fuel.

 

[pappuller]

They try and sell it as rocket fuel.

Not allowed to sell it from manchester now, always used to be loads in chelford years ago never seemed to be best stuff from memory. Think they 0 graze and dump it now

 

[farmer JD]

K pappuller do you know of any haylage for sale

 

[pappuller]

K pappuller do you know of any haylage for sale

Do you have plenty of forage about you or will you be short ? If you have plenty see if you cant use some of your own first rather than buying in and increasing your cost, in answer to your question I dont know of any for sale but there does seem to be plenty about.

 

[farmer JD]

B short plus are ground is high in potassium as we put slurry everywhere

 

[Clay52]

Moist would be ok rocket fuel not so clever

Agree. If we are talking silage for milkers fibre is really what we are trying to avoid. It's really easy to get too much, if you get some rocket fuel is a nice opportunity to feed less grain and save some money.

Dry cows and wet silage is fine as long as it has plenty of fibre in it. Save the low fibre stuff for the milkers.

I never really intend to make dry cow silage. I figure it will happen, a breakdown or getting behind means some silage will be too mature for milkers so I'll put the aside for dry cows.

 

[Princess Pooper]

B short plus are ground is high in potassium as we put slurry everywhere

That is probably the source of all of your problems. Do you not plan slurry applications according to soil status? We don't put any on if field is too high in K or P.

 

[Beef farmer]

That is probably the source of all of your problems. Do you not plan slurry applications according to soil status? We don't put any on if field is too high in K or P.

Do you export slurry then?

 

[awkward]

Just buy good hay . You guys love to make it complicated. How hard is it to keep it simple.

 

[supercow]

Uh oh @awkward we all need to hope @Clay52 doesn't see that comment!!!