Lee VanRoss
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I am curious what your 18-20 month steer weight numbers are. We are feeding different rations, I'm sure but I would guess mine toFor me a defined breeding season and uniformity in the group really helped. We run black cows, nothing special just black and Hereford or angus bulls. The only reason I run all blacks is that's just what we started with. Allot depends on what weight you are selling at too. Too fleshy will get you docked pretty hard and skin and bones hurts as well. I want mine lean and ready to gain on feed at sale time. I'm selling at 18-20 months old though. I think carrying a hodge podge of 350-750# red, black, white, yellow, or spotted calves hurts you. I'm definitely no expert I just messed around until I found something that worked for our operation.
weigh 1400 or more by that time. Just sold some 3/4 RA 1/4 Corriente 11 month steers averaging 935#. I keep a few paisley cows
to look at but the calves sold were solid red and the bull is in the top 20% of the breed average for ribeye area.