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Heifer problems - what is it this year?
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<blockquote data-quote="faster horses" data-source="post: 1743247" data-attributes="member: 17524"><p>The seasons don't matter, the quality and quantity of forage is what matters. When cattle are fed hay in the winter, depending on the quality of hay, they could eat less or eat more. That's why you keep track for a year. Example, a customer bought an overhead cake bin to put his mineral in. He drove under it with a cake feeder on the back of his pickup and fed the mineral with that. There was no way of knowing how much mineral was in the cake feeder. What we did know was how many head he had, we knew the day the bin was filled and we knew when it was empty. This was winter time. When the bin was empty we figured up the consumption. 3.5 oz a day; right on target. </p><p></p><p>On the 'lick test' the cows had to come in from grazing, go through a gate to get to water.</p><p>The blocks were in the pen on a wooden bunk. </p><p>A college student got a grant to measure the 'licks' the cows did on the salt or mineral, both were provided. Then he had to measure the block(s) when the cow left after licking. He found 2000 licks to use an oz of the blocks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="faster horses, post: 1743247, member: 17524"] The seasons don't matter, the quality and quantity of forage is what matters. When cattle are fed hay in the winter, depending on the quality of hay, they could eat less or eat more. That's why you keep track for a year. Example, a customer bought an overhead cake bin to put his mineral in. He drove under it with a cake feeder on the back of his pickup and fed the mineral with that. There was no way of knowing how much mineral was in the cake feeder. What we did know was how many head he had, we knew the day the bin was filled and we knew when it was empty. This was winter time. When the bin was empty we figured up the consumption. 3.5 oz a day; right on target. On the 'lick test' the cows had to come in from grazing, go through a gate to get to water. The blocks were in the pen on a wooden bunk. A college student got a grant to measure the 'licks' the cows did on the salt or mineral, both were provided. Then he had to measure the block(s) when the cow left after licking. He found 2000 licks to use an oz of the blocks. [/QUOTE]
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