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<blockquote data-quote="Silver" data-source="post: 1674832" data-attributes="member: 12520"><p>This is certainly not an average example. But it is not an outlier either. I just posted it to show what is possible, ant that a cow can do that and breed back year over year. That cow is 10. We do wean many calves in the high 700's. Last year we filled a tri-axle liner with steers that averaged 728 lbs, there were more but they didn't fit lol.</p><p></p><p>Cattle here do not hole up because of flies typically, but they do a lot of grazing in the trees where flies tend to not be too bad but the grass isn't great. Mosquitos can get thick. We are fortunate not to have to fight oppressive heat and I think cattle do much better in our temperatures. </p><p></p><p>But we only really have not much over 60 days of good grass growing weather so the calves need to be of an age to really take advantage of it when it happens, in my opinion. By August the native grasses have mostly lost their appeal and it gets hard to keep them on it, and by the second week of Sept. they are often breaking down the fences to get on the regrowth on the hayfields.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver, post: 1674832, member: 12520"] This is certainly not an average example. But it is not an outlier either. I just posted it to show what is possible, ant that a cow can do that and breed back year over year. That cow is 10. We do wean many calves in the high 700's. Last year we filled a tri-axle liner with steers that averaged 728 lbs, there were more but they didn't fit lol. Cattle here do not hole up because of flies typically, but they do a lot of grazing in the trees where flies tend to not be too bad but the grass isn't great. Mosquitos can get thick. We are fortunate not to have to fight oppressive heat and I think cattle do much better in our temperatures. But we only really have not much over 60 days of good grass growing weather so the calves need to be of an age to really take advantage of it when it happens, in my opinion. By August the native grasses have mostly lost their appeal and it gets hard to keep them on it, and by the second week of Sept. they are often breaking down the fences to get on the regrowth on the hayfields. [/QUOTE]
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