General Details
- Ground conditions have deteriorated a lot over the past few days
- Looking at option of housing remaining finishing cattle in coming days
- 12 heifers and 3 cows selected for possible slaughter next week
- Finishing heifers group weighed 475kg on 27th July and gained .83 kg/day since 27th April
- Finishing steers group weighed 513kg on 27th July and gained 1.03 kg/day since 27th April
- Bull calves weighed on 6th September and weighed 272kgs and gained 1.34kg/day since birth
- Heifer calves weighed on 6th September and weighed 254kg and gained 1.23 kg/day
Grassland Details
- Average farm cover 1250 kg DM/day
- Average growth rate 64kg/DM/Ha over past 7 days
- Average Demand 47 kg/DM/Ha
- Currently 27 days ahead
- Current stocking rate: 3.34 L.U/Ha
- Current stocking rate in kg/ha: 2328 kg/Ha
- Difficult to achieve good clean out of paddocks in current wet conditions
- Last round of nitrogen spread at end of August
Breeding details
- Scanning was completed on the 10th August. 86 cows in calf out of possible 88 put to bull
- 23 heifers out of 25 heifers went in calf in Tuam.
- These 2 empty heifers have joined the group of finishing heifers
- 57 cows and 23 heifers to calve in first 4 weeks of 2017 calving season (73%)
- Average cow weight on 11th July: 560kg
- Average BCS of cows on 11th July: 2.44
Key recommendations for this week
- Continue to feed forward finishing group 5kg/head/day
- Prepare to draft cattle for slaughter next week
- Commence meal feeding of second group of lighter finishing cattle at rate of 3kg/head/day
- Prepare sheds for possible housing of forward finishing group next week
