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How Long to Keep Calves on Grain Daily?
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<blockquote data-quote="Stocker Steve" data-source="post: 1647795" data-attributes="member: 1715"><p>If you supplement more than .5% - - or 3 pounds of energy based feed for a 6 wt. stocker - - you have a negative effect on the rumen bugs that like grass fiber. This means you need a good higher protein pasture sward plus some corn like supplement, to get an economical rate of gain in the 2 pounds per day range for an extended period.</p><p></p><p>If you are grazing rank or poor or dead grass w/o much legume, then you are usually working with a much lower rate of gain even with a protein supplement to help them digest it. Perhaps .5 to 1.0 pounds per day. There is some data out there for supplementing with a high rate of DDG - - which can work well with the grass fiber digesting rumen bugs - - because the ethanol plant took the starch out.</p><p></p><p>These rumen efficiency issues with providing grain on pasture, along with maintenance energy required to sustain a large animal, are major reasons we have feedlots. Feedlots stink but they are much more economical than pasture finishing when you have cheap grains.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stocker Steve, post: 1647795, member: 1715"] If you supplement more than .5% - - or 3 pounds of energy based feed for a 6 wt. stocker - - you have a negative effect on the rumen bugs that like grass fiber. This means you need a good higher protein pasture sward plus some corn like supplement, to get an economical rate of gain in the 2 pounds per day range for an extended period. If you are grazing rank or poor or dead grass w/o much legume, then you are usually working with a much lower rate of gain even with a protein supplement to help them digest it. Perhaps .5 to 1.0 pounds per day. There is some data out there for supplementing with a high rate of DDG - - which can work well with the grass fiber digesting rumen bugs - - because the ethanol plant took the starch out. These rumen efficiency issues with providing grain on pasture, along with maintenance energy required to sustain a large animal, are major reasons we have feedlots. Feedlots stink but they are much more economical than pasture finishing when you have cheap grains. [/QUOTE]
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