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I've been buying bulk feed and picking it up in a grain cart and then filling 5 gallon buckets. Up to 10 buckets a day right now and will likely end up feeding as many as 20 a day this winter between the finishing group and the weaned calves. Does anyone have experience with the various...

The sand in the peanut hay is hard on cows teeth too. Used to be lots of peanuts here and the old timers will tell stories about broke mouth 5 year old cows. Just sanded the teeth down to nothing.

I worked for a guy winter that feed some ss balage. We cut it about 5-6 foot tall. It had some Bermuda mixed in the understory. We only ever had about 1/3 of the knives up in the baler so it cut about 3 or 4 inches pieces usually plus no knives near the edges so the bale would stay together...

I knew there was a limit. Seems like Purina has a 10% fat block they sell but I understand the forage consumed brings to overall percentage of fat down. If 4% is the hard limit most commercial feeds I've seen have that much in them already so it wouldn't be much use. One idea I had was mixing...

I've tried two labs in Texas and didn't have a good experience. A dairy friend recommended Dairy One and so far they have been very helpful. They also performed a wet chemistry test quicker than A&M could do a NIR test. Took almost 3 weeks to get a NIR hay sample back from A&M.

I Finally had a wet chemistry analysis done on some pecans that are available to me. This is a sample of 100% pecan pieces. What I have available is different mixes of pecans and pecan shell from 5-25% shell. I figured it would be easier to test 100% pecan and then do the math for the product...

Ya'll have given me some great advice about finishing steers. Thanks for that. However we haven't solved my original problem yet. I was asking about the cowculator spread sheet or something similar being used to help formulate a feed ration for finishing steers. Even if I do feed corn as...

I don't like trying to finish them in this heat. Will defiantly be changing things for next time.

The craiglist type people may be selling them at that age but I don't think most of us would classify that carcass as "finished" if we saw it in the meat locker.

One more question about the WSC. What is the normal feed conversion rate for WSC. Trying to figure some cost. @Jeanne - Simme Valley @Son of Butch

That would be calves 7-800 lbs right?

I think your forgetting a few steps for the grain finished animal. They go to the sale barn at 4-8 months then to a backgrounding operation for a few more months then finish in a feed yard for more than 6 weeks. I think the average slaughter age in the us is around 20 months. And grass finished...

Well sounds like I just need to go the corn route as most recommend it and enjoy the meat produced. I would enjoy trying a bunch of different methods. I had really planned to have these animals on wheat/peas this spring and sudan/peas all summer but the drought messed those plans up. I guess I...

Do you recommend straight corn because it's cheaper than a finisher feed would be? The big feed lots don't finish on straight corn and hay so I would assume there is some advantage to a mixed feed?

I could be completely wrong here in my thinking but the Starch in the WSC will make there gut not process the hay right? I was hoping to utilize that high protein hay (it's last years so it's affordable) as the base of the feed program and just supplement some to add some gain per day.

Not sure about this year but last year I found cotton seed cubes to be the better buy than the liquid feed if you were going to see the cows several times per week. The protein was cheaper per pound and you could control how much they were getting. I know that's not what you ask but I think it's...

Here's the short story. We've got 2 steers on feed to be butchered in about 90 days. For the last 30 days they have been on free choice coastal bermuda hay that tested 15% protein and around 8 pounds of a finisher feed that claims 14% protein and 4% fat. So I have been playing around with the...

It's a ration calculator that made in an excel sheet. I believe OSU made it. Someone on this site recommended it and put a link sometime back. It has a pretty good list of common feeds and plenty of room to put your own tested hay and such in.

Well I am in luck then as -20 c is -4 f and we shouldn't see that kinda cold. Even last year during that record breaking storm we only saw low single digits. But we did feed all the grass hay they would eat plus a 3-4 pounds of range cubes a day. Thanks for the info.

Is there a formula or guide for feeding more based on cold weather? I have been using the Cowculator program to get my ration where I want it for cost and weight management. I am wondering how much if any extra needs to be fed during these cold spells below freezing? In the past I would always...