Trying a new kind of feed for the cows | Cow Palace - Ep71
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- With cows comfortable in the barn, we can get back to focusing on get the best feed for them. One challenge we have this year is we simply don't have enough to get through the year. That's why we're trying an experiment: Sudan Grass! As you'll see in the video, my hope was it would be the perfect addition to our farm. That may have been too optimistic.
We've also got some electrical to run! With a few things to still accomplish, getting electricity to some new auger motors is a top priority, which means I'm heading into the attic to run them. Believe it not, not the most fun job you could find.
We also have calves to feed, thanks to a little milking help from the robots.
And finally we find out a few more things about our Maximus brain that controls several elements of our barn, including lights and fans, curtains and chimneys. You can find out more about Maximus here: maxon-ag.ca/
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I follow a couple of PA farmers who grow Sudan Grass. It helps supplement and provides good tonnage! 👍😎
The ones I watched chopped the Sudan grass they did not Bale it. Hope that it's not a continuing problem!
Thinking that might be the way we do it...if we do it again.
@@FreshAirFarmer feeding out Sudan baleage is not fun either. The cows do not like the whole stalks
m4use stands for milk for use ;) greets from a dutch dairy farmer
How do you like your new barn did you have to sell any cows that wouldn't work in the robots I assume you have registered Holsteins and jerseys I don't know if you sell surplus stock or not for extra income I do
We got rid of 2 that definitely didn't adjust. We also dried off about 3 others early in hopes a new lactation would solve their problem. Will see in another month or so!
It takes a very long time dry we did it for 5 years .54" bales pushing 1000kgs. We found it better chopping and bagging
We also chopped and bagged it to was 6 to 8 ft tall.
Does it pack fairly well in the bag?
It does pack nice mind you we don't have enough hp on the bagger but the cows love it though its crazy how they devour it !!. Our custom guy had a kuhn baler made for wet hay and he had trouble baling our soudan .when the bale would go out it would bounce the baler!
@@FreshAirFarmer yes it packed very good 👍
Great videos just wondering your capacity of the new barn. Milking cows, dry cows and bred heifers
Full capacity is close to 100 milking and then all the young stock and dry cows to go with it under one roof. Tightening up some heifer inventory I hope we also might make room for a pen of cross breds to background but that won't be right away.
I do custom round baling and I refuse to do cover crops other than dry oats and peas because they cause trouble, you are better of to hire a chain baler or chop it.
On our dairy farm we have a McHale round baler that we use in the spring to make rye bales and most of the time have zero issues. We also have used it to make Sudan grass. We usually cut it one day, ted it apart the next day, and on the third day, we rake it up and bale.
Chopping it does sound like a better option. Although tedding it out may also make it a little easier to deal with. A bunch of trial and error I'm afraid.
I like that idea to get it a bit drier. Might be what we have to try next time.
do you guys classify your cows
Yes we do! Will have to show that sometime we actually do it.