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<blockquote data-quote="IluvABbeef" data-source="post: 573233" data-attributes="member: 3739"><p>And yet another post on stockers! At least that's what I took from your term of "cows"....</p><p></p><p>What kinda grass do you have? Of only 10 acres in Indiana that sounds like you could put on half a dozen stockers (most popular breed seems to be black angus) for the grazing season. Split the ten acres into 2.5 acres to better control your grazing, and get a more evenly grazed pasture. In the summer you could use temperary electric fencing for their paddocks, and control them thataway. And buy your stockers at 500 to 600 lbs, 400 is too small IMHO. By the end of the summer those stockers'll weigh about 800 lbs, no need to really graze them in the corn stalks unless you have a nice dry summer with scant grass. Unless you want to feed them over winter (buying hay bales for them), it's probably best to wait 'til spring to purchase a few head then sell them/butcher them in the fall.</p><p></p><p>Lets see what other folks have to say. ;-)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IluvABbeef, post: 573233, member: 3739"] And yet another post on stockers! At least that's what I took from your term of "cows".... What kinda grass do you have? Of only 10 acres in Indiana that sounds like you could put on half a dozen stockers (most popular breed seems to be black angus) for the grazing season. Split the ten acres into 2.5 acres to better control your grazing, and get a more evenly grazed pasture. In the summer you could use temperary electric fencing for their paddocks, and control them thataway. And buy your stockers at 500 to 600 lbs, 400 is too small IMHO. By the end of the summer those stockers'll weigh about 800 lbs, no need to really graze them in the corn stalks unless you have a nice dry summer with scant grass. Unless you want to feed them over winter (buying hay bales for them), it's probably best to wait 'til spring to purchase a few head then sell them/butcher them in the fall. Lets see what other folks have to say. ;-) [/QUOTE]
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