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<blockquote data-quote="hayray" data-source="post: 291431" data-attributes="member: 3046"><p>Since the calf is weaned and you want to raise beef for high quality best tasting, all the research indicates that you should put the calf on feed right away. In beef speak" putting on feed would be a high energy ration with a protein supplement, working them up to a free choice - add lib. feed ration. In Michigan this is usually corn as the main diet with soybean meal or some preformed protein pellet, and then making sure there is always hay in front of them. With this diet you start out with very small portions until the animal acclimates to a grain diet and then work up to feeding the calf as much as it will eat, you can finish a calf out to 1000 lb. steer in 12 - 14 months from birth to finish.</p><p></p><p>Raising them on more of what is called a backgrounding diet which is less feed so that they grow more in frame before you fatten them will probably produce a higher meat producing animal at a latter age but on the average may not grade as high as the animal put on feed earlier. </p><p></p><p>As for color, it is generally considered that Angus genetics produce a black high grading animal. Reddish animals alot of time are Limousine, which are a larger framed animal, but there are black Limousine and Black Simmentals also, so may be difficult to discern. Sorry you had problems on this forum, I have seen that too often.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hayray, post: 291431, member: 3046"] Since the calf is weaned and you want to raise beef for high quality best tasting, all the research indicates that you should put the calf on feed right away. In beef speak" putting on feed would be a high energy ration with a protein supplement, working them up to a free choice - add lib. feed ration. In Michigan this is usually corn as the main diet with soybean meal or some preformed protein pellet, and then making sure there is always hay in front of them. With this diet you start out with very small portions until the animal acclimates to a grain diet and then work up to feeding the calf as much as it will eat, you can finish a calf out to 1000 lb. steer in 12 - 14 months from birth to finish. Raising them on more of what is called a backgrounding diet which is less feed so that they grow more in frame before you fatten them will probably produce a higher meat producing animal at a latter age but on the average may not grade as high as the animal put on feed earlier. As for color, it is generally considered that Angus genetics produce a black high grading animal. Reddish animals alot of time are Limousine, which are a larger framed animal, but there are black Limousine and Black Simmentals also, so may be difficult to discern. Sorry you had problems on this forum, I have seen that too often. [/QUOTE]
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