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<blockquote data-quote="jersey lilly" data-source="post: 137671" data-attributes="member: 2258"><p>Last year, our daughter raised a pen of three commercial heifers for showing at the fair. Was the first time we'd done something like that. </p><p>Their feed ration was 10 lbs each of a rice bran 15%,cotton seed 25%, corn mixture 60%. Plus free access to hay, and what grass was in their 3 acre pasture. </p><p>They weighed in at a average of 525 each November 29, 2004</p><p>then on June 3 they weighed in at the fair, averaging 1100 lbs each. They were brangus heifers. The feed cost us 167.00 a ton. Average daily weight gain was 3.8 lbs. I was real impressed with this feed ration, much more so than what the feed stores sell. That stuff will make you go broke real fast at $8.95/50# bags. we started them on that for the first month or so when I decided that was just NOT economical at all, but I'd asked at the feed store what to feed show heifers and that's what they told me everyone was feeding. And the ration was 20# each per day.After asking around I found a feed supplier that I can buy bulk from, cheaper than even the coop. Boy did I learn alot with that project. Her heifers placed 4th, against some that were registered cattle, we pulled hers from our own pasture. So I felt good about how it all came out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jersey lilly, post: 137671, member: 2258"] Last year, our daughter raised a pen of three commercial heifers for showing at the fair. Was the first time we'd done something like that. Their feed ration was 10 lbs each of a rice bran 15%,cotton seed 25%, corn mixture 60%. Plus free access to hay, and what grass was in their 3 acre pasture. They weighed in at a average of 525 each November 29, 2004 then on June 3 they weighed in at the fair, averaging 1100 lbs each. They were brangus heifers. The feed cost us 167.00 a ton. Average daily weight gain was 3.8 lbs. I was real impressed with this feed ration, much more so than what the feed stores sell. That stuff will make you go broke real fast at $8.95/50# bags. we started them on that for the first month or so when I decided that was just NOT economical at all, but I'd asked at the feed store what to feed show heifers and that's what they told me everyone was feeding. And the ration was 20# each per day.After asking around I found a feed supplier that I can buy bulk from, cheaper than even the coop. Boy did I learn alot with that project. Her heifers placed 4th, against some that were registered cattle, we pulled hers from our own pasture. So I felt good about how it all came out. [/QUOTE]
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