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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 457"><p>> The age old question. Would you</p><p>> try to limit them or just let them</p><p>> eat full feed? Think they will get</p><p>> too fleshly? Does it really hurt</p><p>> replacement heifers? I know I'm</p><p>> full of questions. Any thoughts or</p><p>> actual experiences would be very</p><p>> helpful. Thanks so much! Well it definitely pays cause you are putting on each pound for .28-.35 cents and selling it for .85-1.00 cents not to mention it takes alot of stress off of the cow and pasture and they are eating when you wean them which prevents them from getting sick and if they did you would have a way easier time getting them to eat some antibiotic. I am telling you this as a cow/calf man. If I were going to tell you as a feedlot man(which I am both) I will tell you that I would way rather buy skinny cattle that are going to have a lot of compensatory gain but that is strictly my benefit not yours. Also if you have good growing cattle you should be able to full feed them until you wean them and they will hardly be fleshy at all, but once you wean them alot of their "easy growth" is gone and you will need to slow down. I know guys who keep cattle on a self feeder their whole lives and they are finished in fourteen months and they get top dollar at the salebarn, but these cattle could be weighing another hundred pounds if they had been slowed down but they are 1250 and look real finished instead of thirteen and real finished but they are way ahead of schedule</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 457"] > The age old question. Would you > try to limit them or just let them > eat full feed? Think they will get > too fleshly? Does it really hurt > replacement heifers? I know I'm > full of questions. Any thoughts or > actual experiences would be very > helpful. Thanks so much! Well it definitely pays cause you are putting on each pound for .28-.35 cents and selling it for .85-1.00 cents not to mention it takes alot of stress off of the cow and pasture and they are eating when you wean them which prevents them from getting sick and if they did you would have a way easier time getting them to eat some antibiotic. I am telling you this as a cow/calf man. If I were going to tell you as a feedlot man(which I am both) I will tell you that I would way rather buy skinny cattle that are going to have a lot of compensatory gain but that is strictly my benefit not yours. Also if you have good growing cattle you should be able to full feed them until you wean them and they will hardly be fleshy at all, but once you wean them alot of their "easy growth" is gone and you will need to slow down. I know guys who keep cattle on a self feeder their whole lives and they are finished in fourteen months and they get top dollar at the salebarn, but these cattle could be weighing another hundred pounds if they had been slowed down but they are 1250 and look real finished instead of thirteen and real finished but they are way ahead of schedule [/QUOTE]
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