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<blockquote data-quote="wbvs58" data-source="post: 1639982" data-attributes="member: 16453"><p>It does make sense, but I don't have a situation where they are on grass only for 100% of the year. I will give you a rundown on how I raise them.</p><p>Our seasons are opposite to yours obviously. My calves are born mid to late winter. We don't routinely feed hay, cows and 1st calf heifers are just on stockpiled grass and are in a pretty poor scrub block until just before the calf is due they then go onto better stockpiled grass. After calving I will give the 1st calvers a bit of assistance with about 2kg of grain mix until things green up in spring. I do try and grow some forage to help them but have limited country suitable. The calves do well here and are only on grass and mothers milk over summer and cows are not supplemented. Most of the early calves will wean at around 350kg around the end of March with 1 or two over 400kg. Any that I keep and develop as bulls will be on grass that is rapidly deteriorating in quality as the frosts start in late March so I will supplement them with a grain mix at about 1% body wt. daily until the grass greens up in spring and they are on their own again until they are brought in and fed as previously described. By the end of winter most would be around 500kg.</p><p>If the calves were not fed over winter I would think their weight in spring would only be around their weaning weight. The older bulls would probably be less than their weight after summer by the time the bull sale came around.</p><p>If I had a good forage crop to put them on I think weight gains similar to that on grain would be achieved.</p><p></p><p>Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wbvs58, post: 1639982, member: 16453"] It does make sense, but I don't have a situation where they are on grass only for 100% of the year. I will give you a rundown on how I raise them. Our seasons are opposite to yours obviously. My calves are born mid to late winter. We don't routinely feed hay, cows and 1st calf heifers are just on stockpiled grass and are in a pretty poor scrub block until just before the calf is due they then go onto better stockpiled grass. After calving I will give the 1st calvers a bit of assistance with about 2kg of grain mix until things green up in spring. I do try and grow some forage to help them but have limited country suitable. The calves do well here and are only on grass and mothers milk over summer and cows are not supplemented. Most of the early calves will wean at around 350kg around the end of March with 1 or two over 400kg. Any that I keep and develop as bulls will be on grass that is rapidly deteriorating in quality as the frosts start in late March so I will supplement them with a grain mix at about 1% body wt. daily until the grass greens up in spring and they are on their own again until they are brought in and fed as previously described. By the end of winter most would be around 500kg. If the calves were not fed over winter I would think their weight in spring would only be around their weaning weight. The older bulls would probably be less than their weight after summer by the time the bull sale came around. If I had a good forage crop to put them on I think weight gains similar to that on grain would be achieved. Ken [/QUOTE]
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