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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 694613" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>For starters other then during the third year of a severe drought and after having thinned down to almost nothing. we rarely feed hay for even 45 days a year. During the summer we alternate between CSG and WSG which the cows hardly touch, they prefer the toxic fescue. We've selected for genetics that will perform on the forage we have. Spring calve the only grain they get is at weaning when we background them for 45 days before heading to the feeders. Cows will get a mouthful occasioanlly during breeding season when we use it to entice them into the lot so I can cut out the ones that need AIing. We only spring calves only because I'm too old to mess around with the problems of providing high nutrition during thr winter. Stockpiled toxic fescue works good enough. Our customers, the feedlots, like the type of cattle we provide, usually to the tune of a couple of bucks a cwt over market. Different environments allow (dictate) different managment strategys. In the desert the type of cow we ran woudln;t work here and the cattle here won;t work there. I'll continue to provide the raw material for the feers/killers/familys that prefer the kind of eating that comes form a young (too young in my estimation) well marbled piece of meat. That is the nitch I prefer filling.</p><p>These methods woudln;t wrok in the north, probably wouldn;t even work in the deep south, but they work here and that's where we are at the present time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 694613, member: 34"] For starters other then during the third year of a severe drought and after having thinned down to almost nothing. we rarely feed hay for even 45 days a year. During the summer we alternate between CSG and WSG which the cows hardly touch, they prefer the toxic fescue. We've selected for genetics that will perform on the forage we have. Spring calve the only grain they get is at weaning when we background them for 45 days before heading to the feeders. Cows will get a mouthful occasioanlly during breeding season when we use it to entice them into the lot so I can cut out the ones that need AIing. We only spring calves only because I'm too old to mess around with the problems of providing high nutrition during thr winter. Stockpiled toxic fescue works good enough. Our customers, the feedlots, like the type of cattle we provide, usually to the tune of a couple of bucks a cwt over market. Different environments allow (dictate) different managment strategys. In the desert the type of cow we ran woudln;t work here and the cattle here won;t work there. I'll continue to provide the raw material for the feers/killers/familys that prefer the kind of eating that comes form a young (too young in my estimation) well marbled piece of meat. That is the nitch I prefer filling. These methods woudln;t wrok in the north, probably wouldn;t even work in the deep south, but they work here and that's where we are at the present time. [/QUOTE]
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