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<blockquote data-quote="Caustic Burno" data-source="post: 934153" data-attributes="member: 694"><p>I went down to 12 head from 28 from 37 the year before. I had two years worth of hay on hand when the really bad part of the drought started last summer, ended the winter with 7 rolls. I dumped cow's and all calve's at 300 pound's to reduce forage requirement's. I was also feeding 12% protien feed at 220 a ton to stretch hay and grass. Watch feeding to high of protien in a drought with high heat, cow's can't stand getting there body temp raised with the high protien feed. They will start to loose condition pretty quick. With hay going for 200 a ton it was virtually a break even on bulk feed. Now I could have held on to more but the damage to the pastures would have taken years to recover. Had we not got rains in Sept/Oct making for a bumper rye grass and clover for winter pasture, I most likely would have dumped them all to play another day. I held on to the best cow's, after attending several forage workshop's put on by TAMU where they were predicting replacements to be 2000 dollars this year. I figured I could put 1200 dollars into a cow and break even on restocking as kill cow's were bringing 800 a head.</p><p>Dang sure wasn't anyone buying replacement cow's here last year.</p><p>I figure for every 2 350 pound calves are eating a cow's ration of grass a day plus raising the dam's forage requirement.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Caustic Burno, post: 934153, member: 694"] I went down to 12 head from 28 from 37 the year before. I had two years worth of hay on hand when the really bad part of the drought started last summer, ended the winter with 7 rolls. I dumped cow's and all calve's at 300 pound's to reduce forage requirement's. I was also feeding 12% protien feed at 220 a ton to stretch hay and grass. Watch feeding to high of protien in a drought with high heat, cow's can't stand getting there body temp raised with the high protien feed. They will start to loose condition pretty quick. With hay going for 200 a ton it was virtually a break even on bulk feed. Now I could have held on to more but the damage to the pastures would have taken years to recover. Had we not got rains in Sept/Oct making for a bumper rye grass and clover for winter pasture, I most likely would have dumped them all to play another day. I held on to the best cow's, after attending several forage workshop's put on by TAMU where they were predicting replacements to be 2000 dollars this year. I figured I could put 1200 dollars into a cow and break even on restocking as kill cow's were bringing 800 a head. Dang sure wasn't anyone buying replacement cow's here last year. I figure for every 2 350 pound calves are eating a cow's ration of grass a day plus raising the dam's forage requirement. [/QUOTE]
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