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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1557745" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>DCA Farm. We are feeding about 7-8 rolls a day on average I guess. My son keeps track of all that. I tell him what pastures are getting down if I am checking the cows there, but he keeps a pretty good eye on how much each place is eating and when they need it. With weaning off the heifer calves, and the bred cows moved out to the stockpiled grass, which won't last too much longer anyway, we are feeding more places again. </p><p> The pregnancy checks were NOT great, and after talking to another friend, said he had 14 open out of 40 and his cows look GREAT. Said his cows ate mineral this year like it was candy. I attribute it to the overly wet year, washy grass that had alot of water and not much nutrition. So we didn't feel bad because we are running about 65-70% bred too. Over the past 10 years I looked and we were running over 90% every year but one and that was about 88%. Put the opens back with the bulls. Thing is, they are not worth .30/lb so no reason to ship decent cows that are open. They have gone back with the bulls, will have very late fall calves if they catch... but we have the hay. We will have less feeders to ship next year since the spring calf crop will be smaller, but that is the way it goes. We may look at buying some this year if prices continue to be low. Then if cull prices pick up, we can start culling out some more that need to go. Gotta roll with what we are given.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1557745, member: 25884"] DCA Farm. We are feeding about 7-8 rolls a day on average I guess. My son keeps track of all that. I tell him what pastures are getting down if I am checking the cows there, but he keeps a pretty good eye on how much each place is eating and when they need it. With weaning off the heifer calves, and the bred cows moved out to the stockpiled grass, which won't last too much longer anyway, we are feeding more places again. The pregnancy checks were NOT great, and after talking to another friend, said he had 14 open out of 40 and his cows look GREAT. Said his cows ate mineral this year like it was candy. I attribute it to the overly wet year, washy grass that had alot of water and not much nutrition. So we didn't feel bad because we are running about 65-70% bred too. Over the past 10 years I looked and we were running over 90% every year but one and that was about 88%. Put the opens back with the bulls. Thing is, they are not worth .30/lb so no reason to ship decent cows that are open. They have gone back with the bulls, will have very late fall calves if they catch... but we have the hay. We will have less feeders to ship next year since the spring calf crop will be smaller, but that is the way it goes. We may look at buying some this year if prices continue to be low. Then if cull prices pick up, we can start culling out some more that need to go. Gotta roll with what we are given. [/QUOTE]
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