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Well, this was my first time ever raising cattle let alone finishing them off for butcher. They started off as 600 lbs heifers when I purchased them and I left them on strictly grass for all but the last 75 days. The last 75 days I put them over to cracked corn and husks. They were given a...

I have 2 heifers that are currently being prepared for slaughter. They have both been on a mixture of grain and hulls for about 50 days with another 50 or so to go. One of the heifers dropped a calf of me this past July. Anyways, when the heifer went into the feed lot she took her calf with...

Both heifers were under a year old when I purchased them. They are both approaching 14 months. The sale barn said that the heifer with calf would be sold as a heiferette and that the price would not be that good. I paid $.90/lb for them and the auctioneer stated that they would not bring...

We purchased our property this past January and had several people tell me to throw a couple of black angus on the property and they would help keep the grass down etc. So, I went to an auction house and purchased two 600 lbs black angus with the purpose of butchering them this fall. Took them...