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How do you get the chickens to stay on the bulls back? :)

I'd cut back on the feed

What does their poop look like?

My math says you are hitting your 2.5 lb/day target for protein with a little extra. 30 pounds of hay @ 7.5% protein = 2.25 lbs of protein. 4 pounds of feed @ 14% protein = .56 lbs of protein 2.25 + .56 = 2.81 pounds of protein per day

In my opinion she is just hungry. Assuming that hay bale weighs 1200lbs, in a perfect world she is only getting 20lbs of hay and .8lbs of cubes per day. Figure in some cows being more aggressive and others more timid, I would expect the aggressive cattle to maintain and the timid to loose body...

I don’t have a direct answer to your question; but I’m feeding an igr/salt/mineral and my cows may go a couple of weeks without eating very much, and then it is like you flip a switch and I can’t keep the feeder full. They have done this all summer.