Wholecrop to dry cows?

[Cno]

I'm going to be feeding some wholecrop spring oats to dry's this year. The main reason is because I've rented a block of ground in a mid tier scheme which has to have 100ac of spring sown wholecrop on it. I don't need that much SB so I put some into oats this year as a trial.

I think it will do 10-12t fw/ac and tweaking the system a bit I hope we can do higher in future.

How did this work out? What stage did you take the oats and are you feeding as part of a ration or straight?

 

[Cows 'n grass]

How did this work out? What stage did you take the oats and are you feeding as part of a ration or straight?

It worked fine. They were self feeding and had hay in ring feeders alongside.

We still feed some wc to drys but it will be mostly rye going forward.

 

[vinnie123]

Don't take this the wrong way but you've just listed 7 ingredients which to me is very complicated, especially without a mixer wagon... but, I would almost prefer to get the dry cow diet right and the milking diet wrong than the other way round (ideally both right would be better though )! I'm quite happy carrying on as I am, but you're the first one who's given me a straight answer! Was just curious if theres a perfect wonder crop I should be growing!

You did ask if he could “feed anything “ in fairness