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<blockquote data-quote="Double R Ranch" data-source="post: 1824348" data-attributes="member: 411"><p>We won't have any nutritional pasture till she's due if at that depending on weather. So she will be on hay until then. I will GLADLY cut her grain when weaning the first calf. Makes sense on the hay. I will check on the hay tests again but I think she could stay on the same forage mix and just drop the alfalfa pellets would make it work out for dry season. The alfalfa pellets were to counter the lack of high nutrition hay we had. That is something I will look into between now and then. Thankfully where we get hay they always test all the hay so I can compare easily.</p><p>I am glad to hear how you both do this. That seems like a great plan. Far less stressful than I have read before. She has no issues with mastitis thankfully so hopefully we can just go for it. The two calves will continue to have access to the creep feeder all along so they don't loose condition. I think I may keep the heifer (holstein/Angus) as a future nurse cow. I think they are like potato chips......... We already have the 2 jerseys now and another jersey heifer on the way......... oh dear <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /> My spouse is going to have me committed. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Double R Ranch, post: 1824348, member: 411"] We won't have any nutritional pasture till she's due if at that depending on weather. So she will be on hay until then. I will GLADLY cut her grain when weaning the first calf. Makes sense on the hay. I will check on the hay tests again but I think she could stay on the same forage mix and just drop the alfalfa pellets would make it work out for dry season. The alfalfa pellets were to counter the lack of high nutrition hay we had. That is something I will look into between now and then. Thankfully where we get hay they always test all the hay so I can compare easily. I am glad to hear how you both do this. That seems like a great plan. Far less stressful than I have read before. She has no issues with mastitis thankfully so hopefully we can just go for it. The two calves will continue to have access to the creep feeder all along so they don't loose condition. I think I may keep the heifer (holstein/Angus) as a future nurse cow. I think they are like potato chips......... We already have the 2 jerseys now and another jersey heifer on the way......... oh dear 😂 My spouse is going to have me committed. 😂 [/QUOTE]
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