The first two weeks:

• A full rumen is required before animals are shifted onto crops - especially cattle. Fill up with pasture and/or baleage, silage, hay and/ or straw
• Remove animals from crop after 1-2 hours during the first few days and return to pasture
• Ensure plenty of long-stem fibre supplements (baleage, silage, hay and/or straw) are available to stock when off crop
• During transitioning, increase feed allocation of brassica crops in small 15-20% increments every two days, building up to a maximum allowance over at least 10-14 days
• Once feed transition is complete, offer no more than 80% of the diet as crop for drystock
• Feed at least 20% of the diet as good quality fibrous supplement or runoff pasture for non-lactating dairy cattle, beef cattle and sheep. Runoff pasture may not provide adequate fibre intake for cattle, therefore it is recommended that a quality fibre supplement is offered
• Sheep and deer ideally need access to longstem fibre at 10-20% of the diet once fully transitioned to crop
• The first 14 days while transitioning onto brassica crops is when most animal health challenges occur