Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Forums
Cattle Boards
Breeds Board
easy keepers
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support CattleToday:
Message
<blockquote data-quote="turning grass into beef" data-source="post: 503394" data-attributes="member: 5195"><p>.</p><p>Doc, I appreciate your posts and usually agree with your thinking, but both you and Rob had this in your post and this time I am going to have to disagree with both of you on this one.</p><p>Feed test rations at bull tests are usually high energy rations (No one wants to buy a yearling or 2 year old bull in poor condition). In my experience, cattle that convert high energy rations efficiently into beef <strong>don't always</strong> convert grass into beef efficiently. Almost always the opposite is true. If an animal is able to get fat on grass it will also efficiently convert high energy rations into beef.</p><p>Rob, if your goal is to have a group of cows that are easy keepers then make sure you retain heifers from the cows that are easy keepers (as long as the meet you other selection criteria as well). If you purchase bulls from other breeders then go and see how they manage their mature cowherd. As well, see how they feed their mature bulls. </p><p>At our place the mature bulls eat grass in the summer and hay in the winter. NO GRAIN. If the bulls we are using cannot stay in shape year round without grain supplementation then how can we expect their daughters to do the same?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="turning grass into beef, post: 503394, member: 5195"] . Doc, I appreciate your posts and usually agree with your thinking, but both you and Rob had this in your post and this time I am going to have to disagree with both of you on this one. Feed test rations at bull tests are usually high energy rations (No one wants to buy a yearling or 2 year old bull in poor condition). In my experience, cattle that convert high energy rations efficiently into beef [b]don't always[/b] convert grass into beef efficiently. Almost always the opposite is true. If an animal is able to get fat on grass it will also efficiently convert high energy rations into beef. Rob, if your goal is to have a group of cows that are easy keepers then make sure you retain heifers from the cows that are easy keepers (as long as the meet you other selection criteria as well). If you purchase bulls from other breeders then go and see how they manage their mature cowherd. As well, see how they feed their mature bulls. At our place the mature bulls eat grass in the summer and hay in the winter. NO GRAIN. If the bulls we are using cannot stay in shape year round without grain supplementation then how can we expect their daughters to do the same? [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Cattle Boards
Breeds Board
easy keepers
Top