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<blockquote data-quote="edrsimms" data-source="post: 674498" data-attributes="member: 10970"><p>If you are trying to finish them in the next 3 months you wont do it on your feed schedule. You are currently feeding them 12 lbs of feed for a total of 1.56 lbs of Total protein --- not good enough.</p><p>Usually feed conversion rates for cattle are 6:1 (6 lbs of feed per pound of gain. </p><p>You need to be feeding about 2.0 lbs of Total Protein per day which is .13 x 17 lbs x .90 = 1.99</p><p>One more thing --- to keep the rumen active they need a form of roughage at least 20% of their total feed intake per day. </p><p>880 lb steer x 3% = 26.5 total intake per day</p><p> 17 lbs of your 13% ration + the remaining in roughage per day (month 1)</p><p> 18 lbs of your 13% ration + the remaining in roughage per day (month 2)</p><p> 18.5 lbs of your 13% ration + the remaining in roughage per day (month 3)</p><p>This will give your steers 3.0+ lbs of gain per day over the next 100 days = 300lbs + 880lbs = 1180+</p><p>I doubt feed conversions will be much better than 6 to 1 because of the maturity of 14 months. </p><p>I dont know where you bought these cattle, but a normal steer should be hitting 1000 lbs by month 12 even a later maturing gert or brangus-- oh well</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="edrsimms, post: 674498, member: 10970"] If you are trying to finish them in the next 3 months you wont do it on your feed schedule. You are currently feeding them 12 lbs of feed for a total of 1.56 lbs of Total protein --- not good enough. Usually feed conversion rates for cattle are 6:1 (6 lbs of feed per pound of gain. You need to be feeding about 2.0 lbs of Total Protein per day which is .13 x 17 lbs x .90 = 1.99 One more thing --- to keep the rumen active they need a form of roughage at least 20% of their total feed intake per day. 880 lb steer x 3% = 26.5 total intake per day 17 lbs of your 13% ration + the remaining in roughage per day (month 1) 18 lbs of your 13% ration + the remaining in roughage per day (month 2) 18.5 lbs of your 13% ration + the remaining in roughage per day (month 3) This will give your steers 3.0+ lbs of gain per day over the next 100 days = 300lbs + 880lbs = 1180+ I doubt feed conversions will be much better than 6 to 1 because of the maturity of 14 months. I dont know where you bought these cattle, but a normal steer should be hitting 1000 lbs by month 12 even a later maturing gert or brangus-- oh well [/QUOTE]
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