A very wet end of May and the cows have been on the feed pad a lot. They dropped down to 1.5 ms/cow/day with 10kg silage and 10kg concentrate in shed.
Now they are back out in paddock so silage dropped to 3-4kg and rest Grass.
Should pick back up to 1.6ms until 10th June when early calvers dry off. The rest of cows should go up a bit more as early calvers are not producing as much as the rest.
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