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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1776339" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>I would like to know how you get a cow to only eat 1/3 the forage? It is a scientifically proven fact that a 800 pound eats more than half the forage that a 1600 pound cow. My cows weigh 1,100-1,200 pounds. If there were a straight weight to consumption ratio (which there isn't) that cow to eat 1/3 would need to weigh 366-400 pounds. That isn't even a decent weaning weight let alone a cow weight. I averaged paying $856 on the broken mouth cows I bought last winter, A 1/3 of that price is $285. I don't know where you find cows for that price. Any thing I see selling that cheap is most like going to be coyote bait in a week or two. I just checked the cows while calving twice a day. A third that level is checking twice every three days. Actually one of my checks was while feeding hay (you have to do that here no matter what kind of cows you have). Worming? That is a very minimal expense.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1776339, member: 498"] I would like to know how you get a cow to only eat 1/3 the forage? It is a scientifically proven fact that a 800 pound eats more than half the forage that a 1600 pound cow. My cows weigh 1,100-1,200 pounds. If there were a straight weight to consumption ratio (which there isn't) that cow to eat 1/3 would need to weigh 366-400 pounds. That isn't even a decent weaning weight let alone a cow weight. I averaged paying $856 on the broken mouth cows I bought last winter, A 1/3 of that price is $285. I don't know where you find cows for that price. Any thing I see selling that cheap is most like going to be coyote bait in a week or two. I just checked the cows while calving twice a day. A third that level is checking twice every three days. Actually one of my checks was while feeding hay (you have to do that here no matter what kind of cows you have). Worming? That is a very minimal expense. [/QUOTE]
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