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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1684811" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Mature dry cows winter on some stockpiled pasture and hay. Lactating young cows with fall calves pretty much the same but try to feed them a little better hay. The young weaned stuff has gotten corn silage topdressed with about 1 lb 17 % stocker pellets and the old cows with fall calves get corn silage along with hay. </p><p>I will feed any fall calving heifers good hay and maybe get some corn silage once-twice a week.... enough for 2 days maybe in the feed cart.... they get hay and fill up on that then the next day get some silage.... we try to not have fall calving first calf heifers, but sometimes they just need to get bred and so we have had some the last 2 years. </p><p></p><p>Everyone has free choice mineral, and salt blocks, which helps to keep them from spilling out the mineral. Have a couple of cows that really will not hardly touch the mineral, so the TM salt blocks help. Son keeps track of where he stacks which hay so can feed out the different "quality" hay to the different groups. </p><p>We will pull cows and put with different groups if one seems to be getting thin or something.... but we try to keep cows that will winter on what we have to feed. Weeded out the ones that need alot of tending to.... the dairy cows require a bit more but that is taken into consideration.... they will get a little grain a couple times a week if they have nurse calves on them but again, I try to not have nurse cows with calves in the winter. Calves will be able to come in through a creep gate for a little grain in the winter at the one place. It helps to make them calmer to work with too...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1684811, member: 25884"] Mature dry cows winter on some stockpiled pasture and hay. Lactating young cows with fall calves pretty much the same but try to feed them a little better hay. The young weaned stuff has gotten corn silage topdressed with about 1 lb 17 % stocker pellets and the old cows with fall calves get corn silage along with hay. I will feed any fall calving heifers good hay and maybe get some corn silage once-twice a week.... enough for 2 days maybe in the feed cart.... they get hay and fill up on that then the next day get some silage.... we try to not have fall calving first calf heifers, but sometimes they just need to get bred and so we have had some the last 2 years. Everyone has free choice mineral, and salt blocks, which helps to keep them from spilling out the mineral. Have a couple of cows that really will not hardly touch the mineral, so the TM salt blocks help. Son keeps track of where he stacks which hay so can feed out the different "quality" hay to the different groups. We will pull cows and put with different groups if one seems to be getting thin or something.... but we try to keep cows that will winter on what we have to feed. Weeded out the ones that need alot of tending to.... the dairy cows require a bit more but that is taken into consideration.... they will get a little grain a couple times a week if they have nurse calves on them but again, I try to not have nurse cows with calves in the winter. Calves will be able to come in through a creep gate for a little grain in the winter at the one place. It helps to make them calmer to work with too... [/QUOTE]
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