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<blockquote data-quote="DallyCash" data-source="post: 1542244" data-attributes="member: 24158"><p>Hey guys, I might be trying to keep things too basic, nutrition is not an easy topic for me. </p><p>Long story short, when do you want to feed a higher protein feed vs a lower protein feed?</p><p></p><p>Long story: Last year we fed a feed with approx. 13% protein to my daughters show steer (red angus) and a couple heifers. Basically its cracked corn, ddg, soyhull pellets. The pen of 3 got 60# total a day with free choice hay and crappy grass in their pen. The steer weighed 1180 at fair (18 months old) went on the truck and graded out at prime negative. He won the carcass contest out of the 40 steers. </p><p>So this year we are feeding almost the same feed, added rumensin and a yeast product, however the family that we got the above feed ration from is switching to a higher protein, mix is similar to a commercial show feed. Obviously we had good results with the above ration, but now we are wondering if we should also make the switch with other family. We will get weights on the current steers next week, but we are guessing 2 are 750, 1 at 700, and the market heifer at 650. Boys born in Feb, heifer born in April.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DallyCash, post: 1542244, member: 24158"] Hey guys, I might be trying to keep things too basic, nutrition is not an easy topic for me. Long story short, when do you want to feed a higher protein feed vs a lower protein feed? Long story: Last year we fed a feed with approx. 13% protein to my daughters show steer (red angus) and a couple heifers. Basically its cracked corn, ddg, soyhull pellets. The pen of 3 got 60# total a day with free choice hay and crappy grass in their pen. The steer weighed 1180 at fair (18 months old) went on the truck and graded out at prime negative. He won the carcass contest out of the 40 steers. So this year we are feeding almost the same feed, added rumensin and a yeast product, however the family that we got the above feed ration from is switching to a higher protein, mix is similar to a commercial show feed. Obviously we had good results with the above ration, but now we are wondering if we should also make the switch with other family. We will get weights on the current steers next week, but we are guessing 2 are 750, 1 at 700, and the market heifer at 650. Boys born in Feb, heifer born in April. [/QUOTE]
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