Salvage feeder from old hay wagon

[sgreear]

I am not a nutritionist and can't explain all the WHYS, but cattle need the fiber in their diet.
Yes, you see the "whole corn" in their manure, but if you had the sophisticated equipment to dissect the manure with cracked/processed corn, you will find just as much corn. You just can't SEE it.
I take fall born weaned calves in April, start them on the WSC diet. Granted, these are Simmental steers, so they are already 550-600#/6 month old calves. I finish them in October with an average (minimum) of 750# hot carcass weight. Full hay and/or grass from day 1 to finish.

What about heifers for breeding ?

 

[sgreear]

I am so glad I posted here. I would have done it so wrong and prob spent much more money. Thank every one of u for your help.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

I feed my weaned replacement heifers whole shell corn with a protein pellet for a 14% protein ration - reducing the protein as they grow - to about a 10-12% near breeding time. I build them up to 5#/hd/day and continue feeding that thru the winter until we AI them and turn them out to pasture. Then, they are treated as a cow - never to be fed grain again (unless they get lucky and end up in the show string - which is still only a little grain (WSC base) for the couple months of show season.
WSC is my base feed for anything I need to feed - which is generally just finishing steers and growing replacement heifers - and our show string. Cow herd functions on grass and hay.

 

[NIdahoShorthorns]

What about heifers for breeding ?

It always goes back to what is the cheapest thing available to you. Heifers need higher protein, I feed 5-10lbs of alfalfa per day and free choice grass hay, or pasture, depending. Alfalfa is usually the cheapest high protein feed here.