Owl Farm

Farmwatch

Region: Waikato

When grass is growing well, culling may seem a long way off but the longer term view is that every cow that doesn’t have to be fed from February to May (120 days) makes 1 to 1.5 tonnes dry matter available at low cost for the remaining cows during a period where pasture is usually in short supply.

A pregnancy scan this month can confirm which cows are pregnant in the first 6 weeks. An advantage of this knowledge is that culling decisions made during the next 2 months will be informed by indications of later calving or not in calf.

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