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Over wintering broken mouth cows ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Texas PaPaw" data-source="post: 1168253" data-attributes="member: 2905"><p>Several years ago wintered thin cull cows on dormant grass and 20% cubes. Started feeding 3#/hd/day in fall and as grass quality declined eventually worked up to 5#/day in late winter. IIRC, cows gained between 1 & 1.5#/day. Most did about 1.5 adg. Fed about 1/3 ton of cubes per cow for the winter. Was buying cubes by the bag and still made a decent profit. Could probably use liquid feed but would probably cost a little more as most liquid feed is about 40% water. Possibly could use ddg's with a salt limiter.</p><p></p><p>Think about 1/3 of cows turned out to be medium to heavy bred when sold 5 months later. Suggest trying to buy only cows that have not been palpated as that will increase odds that some are bred. Would also have a bull with them as even most old short breds are worth more than opens now. The opens will be the singles and doubles and the ones that turn out bred will be your home runs. Buy a thin or young bull that can fatten up also. Would also try to avoid the really thin, shelly cows as they take more time to turn around. Maybe buy bcs 3's and grow to 5-6's</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Texas PaPaw, post: 1168253, member: 2905"] Several years ago wintered thin cull cows on dormant grass and 20% cubes. Started feeding 3#/hd/day in fall and as grass quality declined eventually worked up to 5#/day in late winter. IIRC, cows gained between 1 & 1.5#/day. Most did about 1.5 adg. Fed about 1/3 ton of cubes per cow for the winter. Was buying cubes by the bag and still made a decent profit. Could probably use liquid feed but would probably cost a little more as most liquid feed is about 40% water. Possibly could use ddg's with a salt limiter. Think about 1/3 of cows turned out to be medium to heavy bred when sold 5 months later. Suggest trying to buy only cows that have not been palpated as that will increase odds that some are bred. Would also have a bull with them as even most old short breds are worth more than opens now. The opens will be the singles and doubles and the ones that turn out bred will be your home runs. Buy a thin or young bull that can fatten up also. Would also try to avoid the really thin, shelly cows as they take more time to turn around. Maybe buy bcs 3's and grow to 5-6's [/QUOTE]
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