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<blockquote data-quote="Brute 23" data-source="post: 855921" data-attributes="member: 6291"><p>I am all about keeping books and running numbers. Its how I make my living. I have years of books from cattle and O&G wells. It really all works the same. You can average any thing, but it may give you a false sense of what is really going on. Averaging does not take into account real life day to day conditions. There is no equation that can replace spending time in the pasture and watching the habit of animals and the conditions that effect those habits.</p><p></p><p>In a normal year there are places where our mineral and molasses consumption go to near zero. To say you have never seen a cow pass up a molasses says more about the quality of your pasture than the tub.</p><p></p><p>Say your feeding cattle and you have a young cow that looks like crap compared to the others. You do the math, on average all the cattle are getting adequate feed/ day. Whats going on? Sell her because she is inferior? After feeding and watching you find out all the old cattle with horns are keeping her pushed off from the feeder. You add a feeder where they can all fit at once and she turns around. Your calculator would have told you to sell her but all you needed was an extra chair at the dinner table. :tiphat:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brute 23, post: 855921, member: 6291"] I am all about keeping books and running numbers. Its how I make my living. I have years of books from cattle and O&G wells. It really all works the same. You can average any thing, but it may give you a false sense of what is really going on. Averaging does not take into account real life day to day conditions. There is no equation that can replace spending time in the pasture and watching the habit of animals and the conditions that effect those habits. In a normal year there are places where our mineral and molasses consumption go to near zero. To say you have never seen a cow pass up a molasses says more about the quality of your pasture than the tub. Say your feeding cattle and you have a young cow that looks like crap compared to the others. You do the math, on average all the cattle are getting adequate feed/ day. Whats going on? Sell her because she is inferior? After feeding and watching you find out all the old cattle with horns are keeping her pushed off from the feeder. You add a feeder where they can all fit at once and she turns around. Your calculator would have told you to sell her but all you needed was an extra chair at the dinner table. :tiphat: [/QUOTE]
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