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How will this beef finish compared to a more traditional finishing method
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<blockquote data-quote="NonTypicalCPA" data-source="post: 1651290" data-attributes="member: 25371"><p>I have a very small herd of belted galloway, two cows along with their newborns and one year olds for six months of the year - so 6 animals. The other six months of the year I have my bull back on the farm. Everyone runs together. I start creep feeding the newborns as soon as they will take it, which is around 2-3 months. The remaining 2 cows, 2 yearlings, and the bull get a 5 gallon pail daily of a corn/pellet mix from the local feed mill. That should work out to 5-6 pounds per head daily. At 1 year of age my yearlings are eating just as much as the cows/bull. The yearlings will get butchered at 24 months. I'm curious what I should expect out of the beef under this feeding program. I started the herd selling breeding stock calves but switched to beef production and downsized after several years, and this year will be my first calves butchered. To keep things simple I like to run everyone together, so a heavy 3 month traditional finishing won't work as I don't want to separate the slaughter animals. I'm curious what others think on how my animals will finish?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NonTypicalCPA, post: 1651290, member: 25371"] I have a very small herd of belted galloway, two cows along with their newborns and one year olds for six months of the year - so 6 animals. The other six months of the year I have my bull back on the farm. Everyone runs together. I start creep feeding the newborns as soon as they will take it, which is around 2-3 months. The remaining 2 cows, 2 yearlings, and the bull get a 5 gallon pail daily of a corn/pellet mix from the local feed mill. That should work out to 5-6 pounds per head daily. At 1 year of age my yearlings are eating just as much as the cows/bull. The yearlings will get butchered at 24 months. I'm curious what I should expect out of the beef under this feeding program. I started the herd selling breeding stock calves but switched to beef production and downsized after several years, and this year will be my first calves butchered. To keep things simple I like to run everyone together, so a heavy 3 month traditional finishing won't work as I don't want to separate the slaughter animals. I'm curious what others think on how my animals will finish? [/QUOTE]
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