Just dried off autumn calvers. They have done well they have milked for over 400 days now. They will calve 20th January.
Milking cows per/ha over summer is 3/ha.
Preparing some supplement. Already done 50 bales. Will try get another 150 bales.
Feeding 1.3 kg crushed wheat
1.3 kg ddg
1.3 kg pke
Cows doing 2.4ms/cow
The dry cows will be grazed on farm. They only need maintenance as all of them are over 5 condition already.
Through the really bad weather we did double feed them. They were getting 8 kg in total through the cow shed
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