Signpost: Walking the ground twice a week

I will probably be grazing it in a week’s time

Joe Carroll, Rathmorrell, Causeway pictured on his farm outside Ballyheigue in County Kerry.

As mentioned in the last article I weighed the heifers in advance of the farm walk. The target for my heifers with a maintenance figure of about €20 was 300kg for the 1st of April.

Overall I was very happy with their weights which averaged 340kg, but I had two heifers that were 263kg and 290kg. These were below target for April 1 but I put them out to grass that day so I am happy they have had
adequate time to make up the difference.