Signpost: With calving complete, focus shifts to breeding and silage in Youghal
Calves out grazing on Eamonn and Donnchadh McCarthy's farm.
The spring calving herd has finished calving and is now out on grass full time. We completed a grass walk on Wednesday, April 2, and the farm cover was 700kgdm/ha. The replacement maiden heifers had been out on grass since early February but were housed in the last week in March in order to maintain the farm cover above 600kg DM/ha.
The maiden heifers will be returned outdoors to grass once growth rates improve, hopefully in approximately a week's time, as the predicted grass growth for the coming week on Pasturebase is over 40kgdm/ha per day for our region. The first fields grazed had a cover of 1100kgdm/ha on the day of measuring.
