SRBeef
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herfdog":2iuewsa5 said:Kingfisher":2iuewsa5 said:The bull looks kind of feminine to me........maybe he is just hungry?
I have 3 bulls that I am feeding they are not pushed vary hard. They are around 800 lbs I am guessing. They get 10.6# grain mix (9# cracked corn 1.6# full energy soybean) each per day.
And they eat around 25# dry hay. That's around 1.3 percent of body weight in grain.
Last year's bulls gained 3.4 # per day off this ration.
A question from a novice(me) about raising bulls: Why would you want him to gain 3.4 lb/day? Why feed him grain at all? Are you prepping him for a show or contest?
I bought a "show" heifer last year about this time. My heifer really "fell apart" in my grass rotational grazing program. She finally realized her lunch wasn't coming in a bucket anymore/rumen transitioned or ... and has since started looking really good on my herd's forage/good hay diet but it took quite a while for her to make the transition.
From my experience with this heifer and as suggested above, it seems like it might be a bit dangerous to suddenly take this bull off of grain and at the same time expect him to breed a large group of cows.
Why all that grain?
Jim