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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Kinford" data-source="post: 1701343" data-attributes="member: 1599"><p>There are a lot of plants ranchers used to depend on for winter browse which they gradually quit eating with advent of tubs and cake. Kathy Voth of On Pasture gives classes on how to teach your cows to eat weeds. She basically does it by top dressing feed with the weeds you want them to eat. But when you change your stockmanship to one where you set them up so that your release is in the direction you want rather than forcing them there, they automatically start looking for the highest nutrition plants available, which are usually weeds and woody plants you don't expect them to eat. Blackberry bushes, multifloral roses, leafy spurge, all ragweeds, cockleburrs, sumac, ironweed and locust. Year before last I ran 145 head of fresh weaned calves on dormant tumbleweeds for six months. Came in averaging 435. Didn't get an average on the whole set, but the top 85 went out averaging 730. Without protein supplement.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bob Kinford, post: 1701343, member: 1599"] There are a lot of plants ranchers used to depend on for winter browse which they gradually quit eating with advent of tubs and cake. Kathy Voth of On Pasture gives classes on how to teach your cows to eat weeds. She basically does it by top dressing feed with the weeds you want them to eat. But when you change your stockmanship to one where you set them up so that your release is in the direction you want rather than forcing them there, they automatically start looking for the highest nutrition plants available, which are usually weeds and woody plants you don't expect them to eat. Blackberry bushes, multifloral roses, leafy spurge, all ragweeds, cockleburrs, sumac, ironweed and locust. Year before last I ran 145 head of fresh weaned calves on dormant tumbleweeds for six months. Came in averaging 435. Didn't get an average on the whole set, but the top 85 went out averaging 730. Without protein supplement. [/QUOTE]
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