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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 1116283" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>Chuckie, I'm hoping you're counting big bales and not small squares, or I'm going to be a little jealous... I feed about 8000 lbs of hay per cow, per winter, that's Dec 1st to May 24th, and a bit of insurance if we get a heavy, early snowfall.</p><p></p><p>I had one cow that only fired on 2 of 4 quarters, and didn't make much milk on the good quarters either, She was a small cow, about 4 years old, would give you a 110 lb bull calf in the spring, and by fall he'd be about 450 if you were lucky... totally starved to death... One year I had a wet cow, and grafted her calf onto her, and once it took, I shipped her and I noticed how much of the food she was eating... Probably about 40-45 lb/day of good hay... The wet cow ended up dying of heat stroke on Aug 2nd, but the calf was 600 lbs at shipping time. I certainly didn't regret shipping that feed hog!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 1116283, member: 9096"] Chuckie, I'm hoping you're counting big bales and not small squares, or I'm going to be a little jealous... I feed about 8000 lbs of hay per cow, per winter, that's Dec 1st to May 24th, and a bit of insurance if we get a heavy, early snowfall. I had one cow that only fired on 2 of 4 quarters, and didn't make much milk on the good quarters either, She was a small cow, about 4 years old, would give you a 110 lb bull calf in the spring, and by fall he'd be about 450 if you were lucky... totally starved to death... One year I had a wet cow, and grafted her calf onto her, and once it took, I shipped her and I noticed how much of the food she was eating... Probably about 40-45 lb/day of good hay... The wet cow ended up dying of heat stroke on Aug 2nd, but the calf was 600 lbs at shipping time. I certainly didn't regret shipping that feed hog! [/QUOTE]
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