Feed for bred cows

[DCA farm]

if you were gonna feed by hand every other day or every 3 days. Once grass is coming in good Just to keep the cows feed bucket broke what would you feed. Sure makes it a lot easier to move and pen them with a shake of a bucket

 

[sim.-ang.king]

Mine come when I call Sook, maybe train them to sook.

 

[DCA farm]

Mine come when I call Sook, maybe train them to sook.

That defiantly be easier on the ole pocket book. How you pull that one off

 

[DCA farm]

Should mention I'm giving them 41% cotton seed meal and 16% pellet right now giving the cottonseed meal as a bump in protein since the quality of hay ain't the greatest. I can keep them on that mix but just once grass comes in good they shouldn't need to much extra protein

 

[wbvs58]

If it is just to keep them coming you don't need much so I would not worry about what it is just as long as they like it.

Ken

 

[ddd75]

i can holler at my cows months after I feed them and they still come runnin.. usually if you rotate them I holler even if they are waiting so they know whenever they hear me they are going to get something good.

 

[uplandnut]

I usually feed with a 4 wheeler, so even if I don't have feed with me they tend to follow the 4 wheeler around. Pretty sure you could put just about anything you want in the tote I leave on the back and they would follow wherever I wanted.

 

[TexasBred]

Should mention I'm giving them 41% cotton seed meal and 16% pellet right now giving the cottonseed meal as a bump in protein since the quality of hay ain't the greatest. I can keep them on that mix but just once grass comes in good they shouldn't need to much extra protein

Once you have grass I'd switch to the cheapest thing I could find. That will usually be some sort of "All Stock" feed.

 

[DCA farm]

Should mention I'm giving them 41% cotton seed meal and 16% pellet right now giving the cottonseed meal as a bump in protein since the quality of hay ain't the greatest. I can keep them on that mix but just once grass comes in good they shouldn't need to much extra protein

Once you have grass I'd switch to the cheapest thing I could find. That will usually be some sort of "All Stock" feed.

Yes all stock 12% runs right at $7 a sack here

 

[Dixie2542]

i can holler at my cows months after I feed them and they still come runnin.. usually if you rotate them I holler even if they are waiting so they know whenever they hear me they are going to get something good.

We also do this.... it's Pavlov's Law

"found that for associations to be made, the two stimuli had to be presented close together in time (such as a bell). He called this the law of temporal contiguity. If the time between the conditioned stimulus (bell) and unconditioned stimulus (food) is too great, then learning will not occur."

So someone above asked how to get them to start coming when called, just when feeding start saying sook or whatever sound u want when you hand feed them and it wont take long...also cheap sweet feed in the summer wks wonders if not worried about quality... helps a lot if your in a jam and by yourself when a cow is out bc they will chase you to the end of the earth for that stuff...