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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 846675" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>"Is OH similar enough to your area?"</p><p>NOPE - Canada is closer to our weather. I'm in Upstate New York, about 2-3? hours South of Canada. </p><p>You are right though. We have AWESOME pastures! It's just that pasture season is just that - a season. We have 185 days of WINTER :shock: (well, that's a bit of an exageration - but close :lol: )</p><p>We average 120" of snow each year. Rarely capable of grazing up to Nov 1st. Soonest we can get back on the pastures would be end of April - if lucky. We had 180" of snow last year.</p><p>We sort our herd into management groups in the winter. We have the mature cowherd, that gets limited hay (they run out & have to clean up waste), coming 2 & 3 yrs olds, fall cow/calf pairs & the replacement heifers. The replacement heifers actually get the worse, unprotected area and we full feed them baleage and suppliment with whole shell corn. Nothing fancy. Start them out with 2-3#, build up to maybe 5# during the peak of winter, and drop them back down to about 3-4# as weather gets milder or based on the BCS. Never want to see fat in the udder. And as I said, this corn actually lowers the consumption of hay being fed, so some of the cost is a wash.</p><p>So, different areas require different management. I expect my heifers to calve at 21-24 months of age, so I guess I feel I need to manage them accordingly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 846675, member: 968"] "Is OH similar enough to your area?" NOPE - Canada is closer to our weather. I'm in Upstate New York, about 2-3? hours South of Canada. You are right though. We have AWESOME pastures! It's just that pasture season is just that - a season. We have 185 days of WINTER :shock: (well, that's a bit of an exageration - but close :lol: ) We average 120" of snow each year. Rarely capable of grazing up to Nov 1st. Soonest we can get back on the pastures would be end of April - if lucky. We had 180" of snow last year. We sort our herd into management groups in the winter. We have the mature cowherd, that gets limited hay (they run out & have to clean up waste), coming 2 & 3 yrs olds, fall cow/calf pairs & the replacement heifers. The replacement heifers actually get the worse, unprotected area and we full feed them baleage and suppliment with whole shell corn. Nothing fancy. Start them out with 2-3#, build up to maybe 5# during the peak of winter, and drop them back down to about 3-4# as weather gets milder or based on the BCS. Never want to see fat in the udder. And as I said, this corn actually lowers the consumption of hay being fed, so some of the cost is a wash. So, different areas require different management. I expect my heifers to calve at 21-24 months of age, so I guess I feel I need to manage them accordingly. [/QUOTE]
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