General Details
- Cull cows continue to be fed 7kgs meal and ad-lib pit silage
- All animals now housed
- Bull calves weighed 340kg on 2/12/2015 and had an average daily gain since birth of 1.19kg/day. Heifer calves average weight was 334kg on 24/11/2015 and they gained 1.11kg/day since birth
Grassland Details
- All farm closed on 18th November
- Average farm cover 825 kg DM/day
- Growth of 25kg/DM/day over past 7 days
- Paddocks closed since 5th October have accumulated a cover of 1400/kg/dm/ha and this will be grazed first in spring
Key recommendations for this week
- Continue feeding meal to finishers at 7kg/head/day
- Another draft to be done on the finishing cattle on Friday
- Bull calves to receive 2kgs/head/day and heifer calves 1.5kg/head/day
- Replacement heifers to remain on 1.5kg/head/day
- Move weanlings into new shed
- Pen cows according to BCS and restrict feeding to 4+ cows
