Spring Grazing

[Tirglas]

I find first round grass feeds very well green brown or purple depending on wind scortch high in dm and high in fibre, then on round 2 look out for high milk ureas and beware of lifted rails in the parlour!!!!

Ours only eating a couple grabs silage at night now filling up well during day grazing off silage fields at the moment whilst growth still slow

 

[som farmer]

ours just nosed yesterdays mainly hay, left in trough, they have answered the question.

 

[Tirglas]

Up in milk and milk protein so dropped cake 2kg to see.

Filling bellies during day without worrying too much as the residual will be closed off for first cut. Furthest fields on platform and south facing so well ahead of the rest silage ground which is pretty bare now.

Energy must have been restricted when housed my bad!

 

[jimmer]

Mine walk past the springers feeders at milking time and hardly even sniff the silage , out day and night here, 3kg in parlour a day

 

[Farmer Keith]

Slow start to the season here, still housed at nights and getting 23kgs of silage plus 6 kgs of cake. AFC around 2000 and the paddock I grazed first only sitting at 1850. Milked in a woolly hat and could hardly feel my fingers this morning. Handbrake is firmly on until it warms up at nights a bit!

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Slow start to the season here, still housed at nights and getting 23kgs of silage plus 6 kgs of cake. AFC around 2000 and the paddock I grazed first only sitting at 1850. Milked in a woolly hat and could hardly feel my fingers this morning. Handbrake is firmly on until it warms up at nights a bit!

Pretty much snap.
Got some overwintered grass I'm starting in next week though. So should hopefully buy me a couple of weeks.

 

[som farmer]

ours isn't doing much growing behind them, need warmth and rain !!!!!!!

 

[jerseycowsman]

Lots of roughage in the first grass grazed in the year .no point in feeding lower value feed if you've got grass available to graze

Yep, my fats stay well up on the first grazing round, 5.5 at the moment, will drop back to around 5 on 2nd grazing

 

[jimmer]

I'm glad I have more dry than in milk
2 calved yesterday, another couple looking handy , need this perishing wind to quit

 

[jerseycowsman]

Get any grass you have grazed now, it’s lovely and dry, who knows how wet it becomes again in April/may

 

[som farmer]

the hardest bit, will be managing covers ! ours are all over the place, and are shrinking in this wind !!!!!

 

[Beef farmer]

Get any grass you have grazed now, it’s lovely and dry, who knows how wet it becomes again in April/may

A droppy april may would suit up here. That said, droppy time for us would be a normal time for you I'd guess

 

[Yorkshiregrazer28]

Our grass has wintered well with a steady growth rate of 4-7kgs a day. Struggling to graze down hard enough on the first round after only being able to get out the end of last week. Feeding 15kg grass and 3kg parlour cake.

 

[pappuller]

Mine walk past the springers feeders at milking time and hardly even sniff the silage , out day and night here, 6kg in parlour a day

I've corrected your mistake.
Your welcome

 

[Sid]

Frosty breakfast this morning!

Nice bite of cocksfoot on the ONLY drier slope. Would have like to have been onto earlier.

 

[som farmer]

my mrs reminded me, in 2000, while I was in hosp, 4 apr, moved the grass fence, in snow