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<blockquote data-quote="Sir Loin" data-source="post: 868976" data-attributes="member: 5601"><p>marksmu</p><p></p><p>Sounds like you got the bull by the horns!</p><p>Where do you live? Utopia Texas where you can grow grass year round?</p><p></p><p>There are two lessons you can learn from marksmu:</p><p>1. Don't be afraid to put a pencil to it, and</p><p>2. Grass is the key to making a profit</p><p></p><p>It appears marksmu has found the perfect geographical location to raise cattle on the only thing they really need. "GRASS"!</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately we all are not that lucky, so we must do some supplemental feeding.</p><p>And the cheapest way to go is hay. And when you supplement with hay you "MAY" have to feed some mineral supplements.</p><p>And that is all that is really needed to sustain cattle when grass is not available.</p><p></p><p>IMO the biggest problem with supplemental feeding is that we over supplement and the cost becomes prohibitive causing profits suffers.</p><p></p><p>Any time you are forced to do supplemental feeding, ( drought or winter etc ) on a scale of 1 to 10, if your animals are at an 8 when the grass gives out, there is absolutely nothing wrong with your animals coming out of supplemental feeding at a 6 or even a 5.</p><p>If you try to maintain a body condition of an 8 it will be cost prohibitive causing profits suffers.</p><p></p><p>marksmu </p><p></p><p>I don't want to put words in your mouth so at what point, age or weight, do you wean your calves?</p><p>And why?</p><p>SL</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sir Loin, post: 868976, member: 5601"] marksmu Sounds like you got the bull by the horns! Where do you live? Utopia Texas where you can grow grass year round? There are two lessons you can learn from marksmu: 1. Don’t be afraid to put a pencil to it, and 2. Grass is the key to making a profit It appears marksmu has found the perfect geographical location to raise cattle on the only thing they really need. “GRASS”! Unfortunately we all are not that lucky, so we must do some supplemental feeding. And the cheapest way to go is hay. And when you supplement with hay you “MAY” have to feed some mineral supplements. And that is all that is really needed to sustain cattle when grass is not available. IMO the biggest problem with supplemental feeding is that we over supplement and the cost becomes prohibitive causing profits suffers. Any time you are forced to do supplemental feeding, ( drought or winter etc ) on a scale of 1 to 10, if your animals are at an 8 when the grass gives out, there is absolutely nothing wrong with your animals coming out of supplemental feeding at a 6 or even a 5. If you try to maintain a body condition of an 8 it will be cost prohibitive causing profits suffers. marksmu I don’t want to put words in your mouth so at what point, age or weight, do you wean your calves? And why? SL [/QUOTE]
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