OCF, Weaned mid-November, put on some fair quality mixed hay with an occasional bale of green cut oats. Moved them to this paddock Dec 19 and started working them onto a mixed beef grain ration (rolled corn,oats and barley with beet pulp). They are getting about 5 lbs a day on that, and mediocre mixed hay.
JHH, No creep. No producer, commercial or purebred, would buy them if they were and I wouldn't do it if they wanted anyways. Cheating the good cows and propping up the poor ones. Creep feeding around here is like admitting your an idiot.
Rocket, Your right, I didn't. I don't anymore...not on here anyways. But thanks all the same.
Cattlemen99, you and I think a lot alike. The only reason 3 is there is because he is built for heifers (small head, small bone and narrow), and that is what everyone wants around here for heifers. I will probably sell him before the other two this year.
H76, 5X and the last one are both polled. All 3 are off of that Misty Valley bull. Oh, and the top bull is a full brother to the bull on the other old thread 'cow frame size reducer'.