what breed of heifers are you using?
I'd stay with about what you are doing. Making them to fat can reduce conception rates.
Yeah Angus. They will be between a year and 3/4 to 2 years. I realize that's bad for the weight, there's a few factors for that, such as early weaning and not keeping up with deworming like we should've. They've been on feed for a month now but didn't look so bad before they were started on feed either
Are these things miniatures? 500 pounds now and getting them to 800 at a 1 3/4? Or am I ready this wrong and they've been stunted?
Im relatively new to cows but that's what I was thinking. I read that in Storeys guide to raising beef cattle and saw in a few articles. I think the problem was I weaned them to early, the youngest were 3 months old and they all were an average of 300lb. They were also only dewormed twice last year. This year I'm going to deworm them quarterly and keep feeding them for a couple months to try to get them to where they're supposed to be
Another suggested feeding mineral with the feed. How much should each eat per head per day?
How much mineral you think you would do a day?
I've always been told 4 oz/hd/day. We just use the same breeding mineral that we put out in min feeders for the summer.
Calcium seems to be the most mineral per volume that a cow needs, and a lactating cow needs about a third more than a lactating cow. About .27% per day, and they can get it from their natural forage most often. Selenium seems to be the most lacking mineral in some areas and a mature beef cow needs needs approximately 0.10 parts per million of selenium in its total diet, or about 1.30 milligrams per day. 25 milligrams is about 0.1 teaspoon. 1.3 milligrams a day is about 474.5 a year, so 0.016737495 ounces a year.
I weighed them
I weighed them a couple weeks ago when I dewormed. A few are in the 600 range and a few in the 400 but most of them are in the 500 area
Good deal. Sorry, I was looking at a few of them and they looked a little bigger.
