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<blockquote data-quote="1982vett" data-source="post: 569251" data-attributes="member: 7795"><p>Unacceptable answers. Nothing in this information tells us anyting other than your animal won't eat grain, just hay. For anyone that hasn't seen your setup, they need to know the weight of your steer, age might help to give a better idea if the weight of the steer is where it should be for its age. Type of grain you are feeding might be nice to know. Most will assume corn, but not all grain is corn. Is it ground, rolled, cracked, or whole? Getting the weight of a Xlarge folgers can of grain is as simple as putting it on a bathroom scale or counting how many cans can you dip out of a 50# bag of grain. A "pretty heavy" steer is revelant only to the one making the statement. To you it may mean 300 lbs., to me it might mean 600 lbs. A 5 month old weighing 300 lbs would be light and one weighting 600 might be considered heavy depending on its breed makeup, another bit of information witheld. So it is impossible to form an opinion or attempt to give advice on the limited amount of information given.This is a good example of miss matched weight. You are assuming 4 gallons of feed wights 10 lbs. My assumption would be closer to 20 lbs. So if you are feeding by 2% body weight of your steer he should weigh around 500 lbs. But if the feed weight is 20 lbs., your steer should probably weigh closer to 1000 lbs. Now maybe you can understand why weights and measures are important information to know. </p><p></p><p> My guess, and it is a guess, is you are feeding him more than he wants to eat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1982vett, post: 569251, member: 7795"] Unacceptable answers. Nothing in this information tells us anyting other than your animal won't eat grain, just hay. For anyone that hasn't seen your setup, they need to know the weight of your steer, age might help to give a better idea if the weight of the steer is where it should be for its age. Type of grain you are feeding might be nice to know. Most will assume corn, but not all grain is corn. Is it ground, rolled, cracked, or whole? Getting the weight of a Xlarge folgers can of grain is as simple as putting it on a bathroom scale or counting how many cans can you dip out of a 50# bag of grain. A "pretty heavy" steer is revelant only to the one making the statement. To you it may mean 300 lbs., to me it might mean 600 lbs. A 5 month old weighing 300 lbs would be light and one weighting 600 might be considered heavy depending on its breed makeup, another bit of information witheld. So it is impossible to form an opinion or attempt to give advice on the limited amount of information given.This is a good example of miss matched weight. You are assuming 4 gallons of feed wights 10 lbs. My assumption would be closer to 20 lbs. So if you are feeding by 2% body weight of your steer he should weigh around 500 lbs. But if the feed weight is 20 lbs., your steer should probably weigh closer to 1000 lbs. Now maybe you can understand why weights and measures are important information to know. My guess, and it is a guess, is you are feeding him more than he wants to eat. [/QUOTE]
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