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In California we pay 1450 ready to go with the bull. As springers they go from 1600 for low quality to 2200 for exceptional. I just sold a springer for 2150. On the other hand a local cattle guy sells his fresh heifers for 2000 all day long. He has a lot of the dairy guys on payment plans so...

I picked up a few open heifers a month ago. I put them on good hay and almond hulls. The majority of them took to the feed and look great. The other 2 are eating fine and appears to have parasites. Since I got the animals they have come into heat and have been bred. Ivomec can be used on dairy...

I bough a group of 30 holsteins 2 months ago. They came in weighing around 400. From the first day the heifers have been fed very good quality alfalfa and 3lbs of grain for each animal. 2 months later the other 29 have takin off and the one animal looks like a baby compared to the others. I...

Yes that picture is a pretty good representation of what it looks like after she has been eating for awhile. I go and feed in the morning and its small and as the day goes on it gets larger. She doesnt look right. Hair is a little dirty, she looks sick. She definatly is not the ideal holstein. I...

Just wondering if anyone has treated a holstein with this problem before. Normally I would ignore an animal with a large belly button because I have heard that they can get larger and turn into hernia's. Anyways here belly button was the size of a small baseball and today I went and checked on...

Hi guys, i posted this type of topic in another forum and got some help but was hoping to get a little bit more info. I'll make it short this time. I have 400-800 lb holsteins that I will turn out at springers. I need a good idea of how much to feed the sizes. I separated the heavy eaters from...

Yeah sorry about the oat confusion. As far as the gains, yeah the alfalfa is really nice hay. I throw in the oats to add in a different flavor and its a way of cutting back on alfalfa. I pretty confident that I can get what i want (1.6-1.9lbs a day) as far as gain with the feed I have. My dad...

Oats as in oat hay.

Yes your right i was measuring the oats bales. Assuming each oat bale weighs 80lbs. Sorry for my ignorance, just remember that oats are new to me, I fed almond hulls and alfalfa for years, but never oats. Anyways, I guess I am confused to because I have always been told that oats were more of...

Howdyjabo- I read your last post and I would say that your formuala was pretty close to what I was previously feeding so I have chosen to increase there feed a little bit to see what I get as far as results. Here is what I think I will be feeding each pen. (assuming oats=80lbs per bale...

Again thanks everyone for responding back. I guess my last question for this topic would be, on an individual basis, what is the appropriate amount of feed for each size. I guess 1 ration for 1 animal in each pen. Again taking into consideration that I have very good alfalfa, good clean oats...

First thanks for responding back so quickly. The grain that I am feeding them is just your standard 70lb bag from the feed store. It has Mol,Barley,etc. It specific to young heifers. I figured the smaller animals werent putting on the same weight because there bigger counterparts were bullying...

Would it be a bad idea to feed the smaller animals that are on grain, strictly alfalfa and grain and kick out the oats.

Every heifer of the 65 I have, have been on this ranch for 1 month today. I weighed them the day I bought them and then again today, 1 month later. I would say that the animals came in healthly. Not overly fat and not skinny. They were all on a silage,hay,grain mix before they came to my ranch...

I have raised holstein heifers for 15 years with my dad and 3 years on my own. I recently put in a livestock individual scale at the farm to keep track of the monthly weight gain on my animals. I have 65 holstein. 1st pen is 600 and bigger, 2nd is 500-600 3rd pen is 400 to 500. I weighed the...