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Rookie needing advice on feed strategy
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<blockquote data-quote="TexasBred" data-source="post: 856086" data-attributes="member: 6897"><p></p><p></p><p>In ruminant nutrition you learn to use "ranges" of numbers as well as "averages" because not even in the laboratory settings are cattle and conditions precise or predictable. You can formulate the best feed down to 4 decimals but when you have to make that feed you try to "get close" and then watch and hope the feed gets close to doing what what all your research said it "should do". As for "factors", that's exactly why you work in ranges. Unless you can house, feed, control climate and every other influence on each cow individually you have to work with the "herd". Notice feed tags always say give a range for the feeding directions but seldom are all of the individuals exactly the same. And you're only throwing stuff against the wall if you don't know you cattle and what you're doing with them over time. That's the difference between real cattlemen and "hats". I have no problem agreeing to disagree. ;-)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasBred, post: 856086, member: 6897"] [b][/b] In ruminant nutrition you learn to use "ranges" of numbers as well as "averages" because not even in the laboratory settings are cattle and conditions precise or predictable. You can formulate the best feed down to 4 decimals but when you have to make that feed you try to "get close" and then watch and hope the feed gets close to doing what what all your research said it "should do". As for "factors", that's exactly why you work in ranges. Unless you can house, feed, control climate and every other influence on each cow individually you have to work with the "herd". Notice feed tags always say give a range for the feeding directions but seldom are all of the individuals exactly the same. And you're only throwing stuff against the wall if you don't know you cattle and what you're doing with them over time. That's the difference between real cattlemen and "hats". I have no problem agreeing to disagree. ;-) [/QUOTE]
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