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<blockquote data-quote="Fire Sweep Ranch" data-source="post: 1055452" data-attributes="member: 18809"><p>They were weaned at around 6 to 7 months, ranging from 560 (red bulls, twins) to 689 pounds, on grass and milk. Once they are weaned, we move them to our front pasture, which has a ton of clover and grass mixes, along with 18 pounds of bull ration a day, each (2% of their body weight is what is recommended, but we do not like to push them that hard). The black bull, oldest, was 1200 pounds on 8/31, the others are all at least 1000. Stocker on here can attest to their size, he came out and looked at them. I can assure you their age is accurate, and all of them have been shown at various times this year and they are the same size as their contemporaries. The big black bull won MO state fair in open and junior divisions, which is not an easy feat (and our first time winning open against the big boys). </p><p>We just had our steer processed this summer, and he sported 3.5 ADG on the carcass contest. Won it in fact. He was on 18 to 20 pounds of grain and full pasture, fed with the bulls on most days. Our bull calves we just weaned are in with the December steer, so three head, and they are eating 50 pounds a day of winter creep. So that averages around 16 pounds a head a day. They do not have a good pasture access right now, so we are tossing them a flake of orchard hay twice a day to keep them happy.</p><p>No special recipe, grain that everyone around here feeds to grow bulls. It does have ruminson in it, which helps with conversions. We are blessed with good forage, and those weaned Feb bull calves were just pulled off a pasture that was 60 red clover, then rye and orchard, with fescue. Good stuff for growing cattle. Only a few two year old cows are showing any rib right now, and once again no grain. But we manage intensive graze our land, so it treats us well when we get enough moisture. We are on a downward spiral right now, no rain in more than 4 weeks. Not a pretty site... Hoping to get some soon!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fire Sweep Ranch, post: 1055452, member: 18809"] They were weaned at around 6 to 7 months, ranging from 560 (red bulls, twins) to 689 pounds, on grass and milk. Once they are weaned, we move them to our front pasture, which has a ton of clover and grass mixes, along with 18 pounds of bull ration a day, each (2% of their body weight is what is recommended, but we do not like to push them that hard). The black bull, oldest, was 1200 pounds on 8/31, the others are all at least 1000. Stocker on here can attest to their size, he came out and looked at them. I can assure you their age is accurate, and all of them have been shown at various times this year and they are the same size as their contemporaries. The big black bull won MO state fair in open and junior divisions, which is not an easy feat (and our first time winning open against the big boys). We just had our steer processed this summer, and he sported 3.5 ADG on the carcass contest. Won it in fact. He was on 18 to 20 pounds of grain and full pasture, fed with the bulls on most days. Our bull calves we just weaned are in with the December steer, so three head, and they are eating 50 pounds a day of winter creep. So that averages around 16 pounds a head a day. They do not have a good pasture access right now, so we are tossing them a flake of orchard hay twice a day to keep them happy. No special recipe, grain that everyone around here feeds to grow bulls. It does have ruminson in it, which helps with conversions. We are blessed with good forage, and those weaned Feb bull calves were just pulled off a pasture that was 60 red clover, then rye and orchard, with fescue. Good stuff for growing cattle. Only a few two year old cows are showing any rib right now, and once again no grain. But we manage intensive graze our land, so it treats us well when we get enough moisture. We are on a downward spiral right now, no rain in more than 4 weeks. Not a pretty site... Hoping to get some soon! [/QUOTE]
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