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<blockquote data-quote="Son of Butch" data-source="post: 1756364" data-attributes="member: 14585"><p>He must be eating plenty of grass if all he wants to eat is 2 blocks of a small square bale of hay. I'd give him 2 more blocks in the evening and see if it's cleaned up when you feed him in the morning and adjust from there. Maybe 3 blocks a day is all the hay he wants for now. I assume he has access to salt and mineral.</p><p></p><p>edited to add: You should be doing more.</p><p>Just saw that he's a growing 1600# bull with no pasture access</p><p>1600 lbs x 2% = needs 32 lbs of dry matter per day</p><p>50 lb bale at 14% m = 43 lbs of d.m. per bale</p><p>6 lbs of grain (5 lb dm) + 27 lbs of d.m. hay = 32 lbs of d.m.</p><p></p><p>he should be eating 2/3 of a small sq bale daily aka 4 bales every 6 days</p><p>(with waste) in a month or two he should be going through 5 bales a week</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Son of Butch, post: 1756364, member: 14585"] He must be eating plenty of grass if all he wants to eat is 2 blocks of a small square bale of hay. I'd give him 2 more blocks in the evening and see if it's cleaned up when you feed him in the morning and adjust from there. Maybe 3 blocks a day is all the hay he wants for now. I assume he has access to salt and mineral. edited to add: You should be doing more. Just saw that he's a growing 1600# bull with no pasture access 1600 lbs x 2% = needs 32 lbs of dry matter per day 50 lb bale at 14% m = 43 lbs of d.m. per bale 6 lbs of grain (5 lb dm) + 27 lbs of d.m. hay = 32 lbs of d.m. he should be eating 2/3 of a small sq bale daily aka 4 bales every 6 days (with waste) in a month or two he should be going through 5 bales a week [/QUOTE]
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