wbvs58":77ho99jp said:gcreekrch":77ho99jp said:wbvs58":77ho99jp said:Looks like pretty harsh conditions Gcreek. Are these your trade cattle or home bred? There seems to be a couple a bit bigger, possibly cows?
Ken
The first and last photos are of our replacement heifers taken about 3 weeks ago. They are getting meadow haylage, a bit of oat silage in chopped bales and 4 lbs of screening pellets daily.
The other two photos are part of 150 light heifers we bought this fall for a witer project. They are getting the same roughage but are getting dry rolled barley and pellets mixed eqaully at 5 lbs total at present. We are expecting our next load of barley soon. By Jan 20, these calves will be getting 5 lbs of barley and 3 lbs of pellets.
We will market them when we see a profit. Likely late March/ early April.
Where would they be likely to go after you unload them Creek? I would have thought that you would be maintaining them over winter and have ready them to go onto spring/summer pasture??
Ken
If they are under 700 lbs which they likely will be, they would go to grass. If over that weight they would usually end up in a feedlot.
We do have grass for them if we choose to go that route. That is one thing we have lots of. We have just seen better profits on the anticipation of the spring grass market.