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<blockquote data-quote="DiamondSCattleCo" data-source="post: 153612" data-attributes="member: 2862"><p>You're right Mike, feed conversion in the strictest sense isn't really what I was illustrating. Sorry for the misleading information.</p><p></p><p>I really did need to include the cattle weights in order to better illustrate what I meant though. </p><p></p><p>His average cow weighs about 1900 pounds. My average cow weighs in around 1200 pounds. In a free choice situation, my cattle are eating about 2.5% of their own body weight per day.</p><p></p><p>1200 x 2.5% = 30 lbs hay/day</p><p></p><p>He feels his cattle are consuming closer to 3% of their own body weight (I think he's high as I feed 2 bales to his 3 and our bales are pretty much identical, so I think he's closer to 2.5%).</p><p></p><p>1900 x 3 % = 57 lbs/day</p><p></p><p>On 50 head of cattle, I feed 547,500 lbs of hay in a year (lets not try to bring pasture into this, it'd way too tough to calculate). Those 50 head will get me 850 lbs of calf each, 42500 pound of calf.</p><p></p><p>So 12 lbs hay to get 1 lb of calf</p><p></p><p>He feeds 1040250 lbs of hay in a year. His 50 head gets him 900 lbs of calf each, 45000 lbs of calf.</p><p></p><p>He feeds 23lbs of hay to get 1 lb of calf</p><p></p><p>So, while its not feed conversion, I'm still getting more pounds of calf per pound of hay fed, or acre of land used.</p><p></p><p>Rod</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DiamondSCattleCo, post: 153612, member: 2862"] You're right Mike, feed conversion in the strictest sense isn't really what I was illustrating. Sorry for the misleading information. I really did need to include the cattle weights in order to better illustrate what I meant though. His average cow weighs about 1900 pounds. My average cow weighs in around 1200 pounds. In a free choice situation, my cattle are eating about 2.5% of their own body weight per day. 1200 x 2.5% = 30 lbs hay/day He feels his cattle are consuming closer to 3% of their own body weight (I think he's high as I feed 2 bales to his 3 and our bales are pretty much identical, so I think he's closer to 2.5%). 1900 x 3 % = 57 lbs/day On 50 head of cattle, I feed 547,500 lbs of hay in a year (lets not try to bring pasture into this, it'd way too tough to calculate). Those 50 head will get me 850 lbs of calf each, 42500 pound of calf. So 12 lbs hay to get 1 lb of calf He feeds 1040250 lbs of hay in a year. His 50 head gets him 900 lbs of calf each, 45000 lbs of calf. He feeds 23lbs of hay to get 1 lb of calf So, while its not feed conversion, I'm still getting more pounds of calf per pound of hay fed, or acre of land used. Rod [/QUOTE]
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