Roughage tour Week 12
The cows are allowed to go outside again
With the beautiful weather coming, Frank Rooker, participant in the Boerenbusiness Roughage tour, assuming the cows can stay outside for the time being. The start of grazing causes quite a bit of unrest for the cows. It is therefore important that they are not put back in the stable in between.
The 200-headed herd of Frank Rooker from Aartswoud has been out again since Wednesday. “The cows are always quite calm under it. We select from the robot outside, so that they go into the meadow in small groups''.
Grazing
5 participants of the Boerenbusiness Roughage tour apply grazing. Pasture systems vary from strip grazing to rotary grazing. To make it as successful as possible, the participants have a good plan ready. While one sees the lake as a run out to claim the grazing premium, the other is very fanatical and wants to get as many kilograms of dry matter of fresh grass into the cow as possible.
For the other participants it is either not possible because a house plot is too small, or they don't like grazing. For example, Roel Assies from Zeewolde (Flevoland) keeps the cows indoors all year round, but brings the fresh grass to the cows. He is a fanatic summer stable owner and achieves good results with this. Wim Bos from Zuidbroek (Groningen) thinks it is no longer of this time that the cows have to go outside. ''The cows are kept indoors and receive constant feed all year round in a barn with a good climate''.
Erik van der Deure
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