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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 980950" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>It basicly goes back to "one size" does NOT fit all. Since we sell few bulls, mostly heifers we have worked with our genetics to be succesfull on our forage. Mild winters like some we get the cows (and bulls both young and mature) are on stockpiled fescue. Ugly winters with no stockpiled grass they are on hay, if the hay isn;t as good as it needs be then we supplement. This year th heifers are on marginal hay (drought results) so they get a small amount of grain supplement, everyone else is out on pasture only. We borrowed a bull that we had sold to breed some fall calvers. He was 2 years old and had just come off of breeding 30-40 cows on a droughty pasture. He was here for a couple of months and gained 250 lbs turned out on our stockpiled pasture with the half dozen cows he had to breed.</p><p>Part is genetics but a big part is the pasture management. A young replacement bull prospect is out with the bred cows now, he'll be weighed in mid Feb when we pull him into the bull pen because the cows will be starting to calf shortly after that. In the bull pen he'll be on hay and a little grain just like the young heifers are now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 980950, member: 34"] It basicly goes back to "one size" does NOT fit all. Since we sell few bulls, mostly heifers we have worked with our genetics to be succesfull on our forage. Mild winters like some we get the cows (and bulls both young and mature) are on stockpiled fescue. Ugly winters with no stockpiled grass they are on hay, if the hay isn;t as good as it needs be then we supplement. This year th heifers are on marginal hay (drought results) so they get a small amount of grain supplement, everyone else is out on pasture only. We borrowed a bull that we had sold to breed some fall calvers. He was 2 years old and had just come off of breeding 30-40 cows on a droughty pasture. He was here for a couple of months and gained 250 lbs turned out on our stockpiled pasture with the half dozen cows he had to breed. Part is genetics but a big part is the pasture management. A young replacement bull prospect is out with the bred cows now, he'll be weighed in mid Feb when we pull him into the bull pen because the cows will be starting to calf shortly after that. In the bull pen he'll be on hay and a little grain just like the young heifers are now. [/QUOTE]
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