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<blockquote data-quote="Jessica06" data-source="post: 1241783" data-attributes="member: 5612"><p>If you have them on free choice creep, I'm not sure what else you can do to push them more. We have ours on Accuration limiters out of a self feeder after they are weaned, but we don't creep. There are different formulas to control somewhat how much they eat, but for growing bulls between weaning and yearling we just leave them on #1. We want to let them grow as much as they can, and then let them sit on pasture until they are either used or sold. That has been working really well so far. For us, we are wanting to see what they can do, rather than shooting for a certain number. 3#/day is our minimum. The group we just finished with was doing 4-5.5#. We tried hand feeding for a couple of years, but got a sour taste in our mouths after we lost 2 bulls in a week to different, but definitely feed related issues. They were getting about 2-2.25% of their bodyweight a day, plus hay and grass, and were doing around 2-3#/day. At the MOST, we were spending $4/day on these here at the end, but with the gains they were doing our cost of gain was only about 80 cents/pound. Pennies, when you think about how much a good bull is worth. I figure from start to finish we put about $2.50/day in them at the most.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jessica06, post: 1241783, member: 5612"] If you have them on free choice creep, I'm not sure what else you can do to push them more. We have ours on Accuration limiters out of a self feeder after they are weaned, but we don't creep. There are different formulas to control somewhat how much they eat, but for growing bulls between weaning and yearling we just leave them on #1. We want to let them grow as much as they can, and then let them sit on pasture until they are either used or sold. That has been working really well so far. For us, we are wanting to see what they can do, rather than shooting for a certain number. 3#/day is our minimum. The group we just finished with was doing 4-5.5#. We tried hand feeding for a couple of years, but got a sour taste in our mouths after we lost 2 bulls in a week to different, but definitely feed related issues. They were getting about 2-2.25% of their bodyweight a day, plus hay and grass, and were doing around 2-3#/day. At the MOST, we were spending $4/day on these here at the end, but with the gains they were doing our cost of gain was only about 80 cents/pound. Pennies, when you think about how much a good bull is worth. I figure from start to finish we put about $2.50/day in them at the most. [/QUOTE]
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