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Same here, Probably about 30% less silage that a normal year. Second cut literally disappeared before it was cut - I have never seen anything like it.Everybody short around here, unusually dry summer
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Same here, Probably about 30% less silage that a normal year. Second cut literally disappeared before it was cut - I have never seen anything like it.Everybody short around here, unusually dry summer
what breed? theyll need the calves off them to go on that diet or theyll melt?All ours get through the winter is straw and 2kg rape meal.
Will feed silage after calving if there no grass.
Can you tedd it out and feed fodder beet out with tipping trailer over it in long lines over rows to ewes to hold ground together and then by time they have done will be muck and could be ploughed under for a spring crop.I’ve 20 acre still to bale. Hasn’t been dry enough since it came out the back of the combine in September. If I get some decent frosts , I’ll bale it.
If not I’ll turn it out with the tedder, and release the ewes !!
That would work,but as a last resort. The field is dry , so hopefully I’ll get it yet. The pigs won’t be too fussy !Can you tedd it out and feed fodder beet out with tipping trailer over it in long lines over rows to ewes to hold ground together and then by time they have done will be muck and could be ploughed under for a spring crop.
Goo luck it will be good bedding if you can get itThat would work,but as a last resort. The field is dry , so hopefully I’ll get it yet. The pigs won’t be too fussy !
Diet feeder.....Why not put it through a diet feeder and add a little silage you will have a nice blend and stretch your silage out and save on straw as its not cheap
If only.....How can anyone be short of silage this yr ......
Surely there's plenty around available cheap
Passed a field today where they'd just finished mowing.Saw two fields of silage baled up about 8 miles away last Saturday as late as I have seen it up here. Been a tremendous year for grass growth all the way through autumn with great weather to secure since June. As others have said excess will help with fertiliser price next year. Normally a two cut place but have had three cuts this year. Finally got cool enough yesterday to stop growth.
And folk wonder why keeping sucklers gets dear??Diet feeder.....
That has put the cost of feeding up a tad...? Mustadmit, I have thought of doing this, but never found a cheap enough means to do it, so use two rings and ration the nice stuff...
Can still bale it but use it straight away ive seen straw baled in January beforeForager (trailed) whining away in the next door field to mine chopping spring barley straw, never got dry enough to bale.
What??? Are you suggesting that my two ring feeding system is OTT????And folk wonder why keeping sucklers gets dear??
Neither are Diet feeders…Why not put it through a diet feeder and add a little silage you will have a nice blend and stretch your silage out and save on straw as its not cheap
What??? Are you suggesting that my two ring feeding system is OTT????
B***ger, that probably means I qualify as a feed lot with three ring system in place because I can put two round bales on the MF375 fore end loader and one on a bake spike on the 3 point linkage!I’ll let you into a secret… we use 2 rings for hay/silage and a big square one for straw… proper complicated system!
And I bet your cows appreciate it just the same!B***ger, that probably means I qualify as a feed lot with three ring system in place because I can put two round bales on the MF375 fore end loader and one on a bake spike on the 3 point linkage!
I knew the "big herd" men would be along shortly....B***ger, that probably means I qualify as a feed lot with three ring system in place because I can put two round bales on the MF375 fore end loader and one on a bake spike on the 3 point linkage!