Re: Winter calving? Why?

Posted by kyhayman on February 15, 2006 at 18:24:27 from (64.12.116.74):

In Reply to: Re: Winter calving? Why? posted by Buckeye on February 15, 2006 at 18:15:26:

Thats a great plan, and one I have thought about to shift calving to day time. I just cant feed every day (or should I say, I am unwilling to feed every day) with my work schedule. I try to feed weekly, this time of year maybe twice a week. I'd like to go to a TMR and daily feeding (maybe in 7-8 years when I can get early retirement).

You are right about mud and hay rings. I went to a geotextile pad 5 years ago. Every year, even moving the rings every feeding I was getting someone trampled. With the pad, havent lost a one to trampling. I usually unroll one when I feed, to get the cows to leave me alone and gives them some bedding on the pasture. Worked great up to this year. At $50 for a 4x4 inside stored roll, I stopped feeding hay and went to feeding only round baled silage. Cows would still go for that roll until I started feeding pearl millet and seedling alfalfa silage, OMG!!!! Cows stood right at the gate waitng for me to feed, turned up there nose at anything else.

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• Re: Winter calving? Why? Buckeye 18:44:18 02/15/06 (0)

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