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? Ever totally skipped into a new breeding/calving cycle??
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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 871089" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>Putting them on a diet means getting your hay from somewhere else. The vast vast majority of the hay in the Kittitas Valley is too good for a cow on a diet. Get some blue grass or bent grass straw from the seed growers. It works pretty good and is affordable. We usually add a little alfalfa with it but in your case you should skip the alfalfa for diet cows.</p><p></p><p>And I wouldn't look at 2-3 weight calves in the spring. In this part of the world any calves that size that are for sale are simply someone's culls. And if you plan to butcher them in the fall they will still be too small. If you already have some quality hay that is better than you should feed to your diet cows, you might think about buying steers mid winter. Feed them that good quality hay. Spring is always the time for the highest price on steers. I have a feeling this spring it is going to be really high.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 871089, member: 498"] Putting them on a diet means getting your hay from somewhere else. The vast vast majority of the hay in the Kittitas Valley is too good for a cow on a diet. Get some blue grass or bent grass straw from the seed growers. It works pretty good and is affordable. We usually add a little alfalfa with it but in your case you should skip the alfalfa for diet cows. And I wouldn't look at 2-3 weight calves in the spring. In this part of the world any calves that size that are for sale are simply someone's culls. And if you plan to butcher them in the fall they will still be too small. If you already have some quality hay that is better than you should feed to your diet cows, you might think about buying steers mid winter. Feed them that good quality hay. Spring is always the time for the highest price on steers. I have a feeling this spring it is going to be really high. [/QUOTE]
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