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The 99th commandment - don't calve on slopes [pics]
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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 683023" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>Hi TB - dry cows are on autumn-saved grass and some corn silage. I dust the grass with 100g (4oz) per cow mag oxide each morning when they get their new area. The farm looks not so bad now, but this was declared a drought area a couple months ago when that grass was supposed to be growing.</p><p></p><p>I know they need selenium - it's ordered. This is a new area for me and the advice on minerals I'm getting is so conflicting I can't make head nor tail of it, nor have I ever handled or fed corn silage to cows before. The dry cows get 10g/cow salt mixed with the silage, because I've been told they need it in this area, up to 30g for milkers.</p><p></p><p>I saw a lot of milk fever at the last place - previously (on farms I'd managed) I'd only seen about one cow a year, but Taranaki soils are known to be deficient in calcium and the area of farm I had to use for calving was sky-high in potash on the soil tests. Now farming in Central Plateau which I'm told is just as bad if not worse for mineral deficiencies.</p><p>Milkers are supposed to be getting drenched - mag oxide and any other minerals directly down the throat at milking. The guys who came to fit my drench system to the wall forgot an essential tool, and it's still not done. Two of the cows I've treated for milk fever were in the milking herd. In one case I'm certain it was probably because I hadn't got them shifted to a new break with dusted pasture soon enough after milking. The milkers get their 100 g MgO plus 100g limeflour (Calcium) dusted on the pasture in the morning, another 50g limeflour plus 30g salt mixed into the maize and fed at night.</p><p></p><p>I don't have much choice but to calve on slopes either, now. Most of the flat paddocks within half a mile of the shed are used for spraying effluent - high potash and likely to cause mastitis issues as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 683023, member: 9267"] Hi TB - dry cows are on autumn-saved grass and some corn silage. I dust the grass with 100g (4oz) per cow mag oxide each morning when they get their new area. The farm looks not so bad now, but this was declared a drought area a couple months ago when that grass was supposed to be growing. I know they need selenium - it's ordered. This is a new area for me and the advice on minerals I'm getting is so conflicting I can't make head nor tail of it, nor have I ever handled or fed corn silage to cows before. The dry cows get 10g/cow salt mixed with the silage, because I've been told they need it in this area, up to 30g for milkers. I saw a lot of milk fever at the last place - previously (on farms I'd managed) I'd only seen about one cow a year, but Taranaki soils are known to be deficient in calcium and the area of farm I had to use for calving was sky-high in potash on the soil tests. Now farming in Central Plateau which I'm told is just as bad if not worse for mineral deficiencies. Milkers are supposed to be getting drenched - mag oxide and any other minerals directly down the throat at milking. The guys who came to fit my drench system to the wall forgot an essential tool, and it's still not done. Two of the cows I've treated for milk fever were in the milking herd. In one case I'm certain it was probably because I hadn't got them shifted to a new break with dusted pasture soon enough after milking. The milkers get their 100 g MgO plus 100g limeflour (Calcium) dusted on the pasture in the morning, another 50g limeflour plus 30g salt mixed into the maize and fed at night. I don't have much choice but to calve on slopes either, now. Most of the flat paddocks within half a mile of the shed are used for spraying effluent - high potash and likely to cause mastitis issues as well. [/QUOTE]
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