Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Forums
Cattle Boards
Feedyard Board
Range meal and day old bread
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support CattleToday:
Message
<blockquote data-quote="1982vett" data-source="post: 806244" data-attributes="member: 7795"><p>J.T. I used to feed range meal like it was going out of style. Fed the molasass tubs too till the feed prices went sky high and the cattle price hit a slump (around here). Spring of 2009 I stopped feeding the range meal and tubs because I had plenty green pastures. Had my hay tested and it was supposed to meet the nutritional needs of the cows plus I had winter pasture. Haven't fed either since and went thru this summers, fall and winters drought just fine without it. Cows were fat coming into winter on less than desirable pastures so I'm not sold on the range meal near as much as I once was. It almost appears they faired better not eating so much salt. Without looking up exactly what I fed, I'd say 80 cows might have eaten 150 lbs of salt a month compaired to the normal 600 lbs of range meal they used to eat in a week.</p><p></p><p>I probably should be feeding something now since the hay isn't all that great and absolutely no winter pasture, but some green pastures shouldn't be to far away now. I'm going to sacrafice a little condition and see what happens.</p><p></p><p>Guess I'm trying to say to supplementing salt and protien separately seems to have worked better this last year.</p><p></p><p>Never fed bread.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1982vett, post: 806244, member: 7795"] J.T. I used to feed range meal like it was going out of style. Fed the molasass tubs too till the feed prices went sky high and the cattle price hit a slump (around here). Spring of 2009 I stopped feeding the range meal and tubs because I had plenty green pastures. Had my hay tested and it was supposed to meet the nutritional needs of the cows plus I had winter pasture. Haven't fed either since and went thru this summers, fall and winters drought just fine without it. Cows were fat coming into winter on less than desirable pastures so I'm not sold on the range meal near as much as I once was. It almost appears they faired better not eating so much salt. Without looking up exactly what I fed, I'd say 80 cows might have eaten 150 lbs of salt a month compaired to the normal 600 lbs of range meal they used to eat in a week. I probably should be feeding something now since the hay isn't all that great and absolutely no winter pasture, but some green pastures shouldn't be to far away now. I'm going to sacrafice a little condition and see what happens. Guess I'm trying to say to supplementing salt and protien separately seems to have worked better this last year. Never fed bread. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Cattle Boards
Feedyard Board
Range meal and day old bread
Top