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<blockquote data-quote="marksmu" data-source="post: 871818" data-attributes="member: 9219"><p>I just finished 2 steers about 3 weeks ago. We started them on free choice hay/water and 1% body weight grain that was a mixture of 50% corn, and 50% rye, oats,alfalfa pellets (740 and 752 lbs) That ramped up over a 2 week period until I was feeding 4% of their starting weight daily split between a morning and afternoon feeding. From there I increased the ration 1/4% per day or about a pound for what was supposed to be 110 days. I was shooting for 1000lbs as a finished weight. At 106 days I ran out of feed and took them in for slaughter. At the end they were getting alot of feed in both feedings - would go through 50lbs a day, but they were very fleshy.</p><p></p><p>Steer 1 came in at 997 lbs, and steer 2 weighed in at 901 lbs. They were confined to a 50' round pen with shade/water here in Houston for this dang hot summer. I think I would have had more weight gain if it had not been so hot.</p><p></p><p>The meat was extremely tender, color was excellent. Taste is also very good - but different than grocery store. It has a much stronger beef flavor. Don't know if that is because of the brahma influence, or because they were on grass before the grain....there is no yellow in the fat - so I am leaning towards it being the brahma influence. At any rate it was a good feed mixture - but it was expensive. The 106 days on feed cost $411.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="marksmu, post: 871818, member: 9219"] I just finished 2 steers about 3 weeks ago. We started them on free choice hay/water and 1% body weight grain that was a mixture of 50% corn, and 50% rye, oats,alfalfa pellets (740 and 752 lbs) That ramped up over a 2 week period until I was feeding 4% of their starting weight daily split between a morning and afternoon feeding. From there I increased the ration 1/4% per day or about a pound for what was supposed to be 110 days. I was shooting for 1000lbs as a finished weight. At 106 days I ran out of feed and took them in for slaughter. At the end they were getting alot of feed in both feedings - would go through 50lbs a day, but they were very fleshy. Steer 1 came in at 997 lbs, and steer 2 weighed in at 901 lbs. They were confined to a 50' round pen with shade/water here in Houston for this dang hot summer. I think I would have had more weight gain if it had not been so hot. The meat was extremely tender, color was excellent. Taste is also very good - but different than grocery store. It has a much stronger beef flavor. Don't know if that is because of the brahma influence, or because they were on grass before the grain....there is no yellow in the fat - so I am leaning towards it being the brahma influence. At any rate it was a good feed mixture - but it was expensive. The 106 days on feed cost $411. [/QUOTE]
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