Youngstock feed

[Fergieman]

Whats everyone feeding youngstock on from weaning to 6months? Compound, blend home mix etc and how much?

 

[Cows 'n grass]

Mine are all outside from march and from weaning they stay on 2kg of a 17% rearer grazing permanent pasture until just recently when they moved onto aftermaths and dropped to a kilo of cake.

I would have thought that to be too much protein but they're never loose and grow well on it. I had a price of £148/t for crimped maize delivered in and I'm half temped to try a load and see how they do.

 

[Jamer]

Any cereals/ground maize/soya/rape combination made up to 18%, depending on what's on the floor at the time. Usually costs c.£200/t by the time we have mineralized and mixed it.

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Just an off the shelf dairy grower cake.
3kg post weaning.
Then start moving them to a tmr of silage, whole crop and 2kg cake. Fed every 3 days or so.
All replacements are august born, so keeps it simple.

Just to make it less simple though. Due to getting a bit keen with the sexed semen, ive had too many for my shed this last couple years.
So have kept a batch on straw/4kg cake, fed 2 or 3 times a day. Gives a similar level of performance as my tmr.
I know which i prefer.

 

[Spudley]

All spring calves here too, they're having about 1.5 kg of 16% dairy nuts and grazing. We never buy youngstock feed bar a bag or two of coarse mix at the beginning. I also give them a bit of straw in a rack in the field and am always amazed how much of that they eat.

 

[Princess Pooper]

All Aug/Sept born here. weaned onto ad lib wheat straw and the same 18% high fibre dairy cake the milkers have, building to 3kg/head.

 

[Beef farmer]

Mine are all outside from march and from weaning they stay on 2kg of a 17% rearer grazing permanent pasture until just recently when they moved onto aftermaths and dropped to a kilo of cake.

I would have thought that to be too much protein but they're never loose and grow well on it. I had a price of £148/t for crimped maize delivered in and I'm half temped to try a load and see how they do.

3kg that would sort your fat cattle right out

 

[Cows 'n grass]

3kg that would sort your fat cattle right out

That's the plan. I'm going to sell the fat cattle as stores this year but next year I have 50 to finish.

50 fat @ 3kg
170 calves @ 1kg

At 300+ kg a day it would quickly stack up to buy a heap and re clamp it.

 

[Headless chicken]

Mine are all outside from march and from weaning they stay on 2kg of a 17% rearer grazing permanent pasture until just recently when they moved onto aftermaths and dropped to a kilo of cake.

I would have thought that to be too much protein but they're never loose and grow well on it. I had a price of £148/t for crimped maize delivered in and I'm half temped to try a load and see how they do.

how would you feed it just bag it off from the clamp? Seems a decent price

 

[Beef farmer]

how would you feed it just bag it off from the clamp? Seems a decent price

It might only be 55%dm 90%dm grain maize is only £186. Storage obviously needed tho

 

[Headless chicken]

It might only be 55%dm 90%dm grain maize is only £186. Storage obviously needed tho

i need to be looking for new suppliers I think. Haulage kills it to us though

 

[Beef farmer]

i need to be looking for new suppliers I think. Haulage kills it to us though

You would be closer to most docks than we are.

 

[Cows 'n grass]

This stuff is claimed to be 70% DM which I don't think is bad value but still puts it at just over £200/ t DM

@Headless chicken . It's in Chippenham, just off the M4 so it's not a lot closer to me than you.

 

[TomB]

This stuff is claimed to be 70% DM which I don't think is bad value but still puts it at just over £200/ t DM

@Headless chicken . It's in Chippenham, just off the M4 so it's not a lot closer to me than you.

You’d about by 1.5 ton of rolled barley for 200.
But everyone swears by grain maize weather dry or clamped as rocket fuel. Never fed it myself tho.

 

[Beef farmer]

You’d about by 1.5 ton of rolled barley for 200.
But everyone swears by grain maize weather dry or clamped as rocket fuel. Never fed it myself tho.

Wouldnt it Be £230 for 1.5 ton dm or barley time its rolled and delivered. £135/ton ex farm

 

[Headless chicken]

This stuff is claimed to be 70% DM which I don't think is bad value but still puts it at just over £200/ t DM

@Headless chicken . It's in Chippenham, just off the M4 so it's not a lot closer to me than you.

interesting. Who’s the via?

 

[Headless chicken]

You would be closer to most docks than we are.

doesn’t seem to effect the price the right way. I think we need better storage tbf. The ability to take a full artic load tipped helps a lot. That should be rectified next spring I hope.

 

[TomB]

Wouldnt it Be £230 for 1.5 ton dm or barley time its rolled and delivered. £135/ton ex farm

Perhaps. More like 120 ex up here. Plenty of iffy spring barley in the ground with little malting market.

 

[Cows 'n grass]

interesting. Who’s the via?

 

[vantage]

You would be closer to most docks than we are.

Milford Haven here, one of the finest deep water harbours in the World, used for chuff all apart from oil and gas!