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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 622476" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>Thanks for sharing the story. I take a couple points from it: 1) your heifer did pretty well on corn stalks 2) don't leave heifers (or cows) on the stalks right up until calving. </p><p></p><p>I harvested grazed stalks last year and saw the same condition gain you did. There was deep snow however so it didn't lok like they were getting much so I pulled them off in Jan ahead of Mar-Apr calving. No calving problems, did have some larger calves but even heifers were unassisted.</p><p></p><p>This year on unharvested standing stalks I am going to pull cows and heifers off of grazing corn about Feb 1 ahead of mid April calving and put them on a weight watchers diet of hay and mineral only, as suggested by several regular posters here.</p><p></p><p>I am turning into a fan of grazing corn stalks (as you can tell) but it takes much more management. Standing takes more management even than harvested.</p><p></p><p>Grazing corn, harvested stalks or standing is a low cost way of putting condition on them which appears to be what we need with cattle prices as they are.</p><p></p><p>Is grazing stalks any different than feeding heifers corn sileage right up to calving? I don't think we'd do either. But I wouldn't let the fact you had to pull a calf discourage you from grazing stalks completely. </p><p></p><p>It may be interesting to track the growth of this large baldy corn calf and compare him to the rest of the group as far as weaning and yearling weight goes. Do they all catch up or does he stay a bit ahead of the rest? Would be interesting to share. Rarely is there such a clean side by side opportunity for a comparison.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 622476, member: 7509"] Thanks for sharing the story. I take a couple points from it: 1) your heifer did pretty well on corn stalks 2) don't leave heifers (or cows) on the stalks right up until calving. I harvested grazed stalks last year and saw the same condition gain you did. There was deep snow however so it didn't lok like they were getting much so I pulled them off in Jan ahead of Mar-Apr calving. No calving problems, did have some larger calves but even heifers were unassisted. This year on unharvested standing stalks I am going to pull cows and heifers off of grazing corn about Feb 1 ahead of mid April calving and put them on a weight watchers diet of hay and mineral only, as suggested by several regular posters here. I am turning into a fan of grazing corn stalks (as you can tell) but it takes much more management. Standing takes more management even than harvested. Grazing corn, harvested stalks or standing is a low cost way of putting condition on them which appears to be what we need with cattle prices as they are. Is grazing stalks any different than feeding heifers corn sileage right up to calving? I don't think we'd do either. But I wouldn't let the fact you had to pull a calf discourage you from grazing stalks completely. It may be interesting to track the growth of this large baldy corn calf and compare him to the rest of the group as far as weaning and yearling weight goes. Do they all catch up or does he stay a bit ahead of the rest? Would be interesting to share. Rarely is there such a clean side by side opportunity for a comparison. [/QUOTE]
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