04/06/2025
On the first week of every month we weigh all our cattle on farm, this is a big effort to get through all of them in a day here are a few pic of our under 150kg cattle weighed.
We have actually adopted the deer handling race for this job as can easily have over 100 head penned and ready to load through the scale, taking under 30 seconds each this keeps the stress on the animal to a minimum, but also give us a valuable chance to put hands on every calf as an individual and is invaluable for picking up some things that may go unnoticed on our daily stock walks!
All the data is collected automatically and input directly to our herd software which allows us to see how each calf is performing individually but also as a bunch on the whole, giving us key insights into the effects of nutritional changes and how events and routines on farm have affected the calves.
The best guide that we are doing our job well is an overall average daily gain figure (adg). This month we have had lots of new calves in and some nutritional changes so it was good to see that we are not too far behind our target of 0.85kg/day for the youngest calves over a mix of native, continental and Wagyu calves.
