Stocker Steve":1u2hgdrk said:
Maybe I need tall fescue?
If my post was ambiguous I apologize. You don't need tall fescue if your calves are hairy like mine. Maybe you do if you're in hills to where nothing will hold it together like fescue will due to erosion or droughty slopes. Otherwise I wouldn't be thinking about fescue at all.
I have some cows with a little sim in them that are slick on fescue pasture that was wormed using injectable in the spring. I have some open/bred hopefully spring hfrs that was wormed in the spring with Longrange. They are hairy as the yearlings.
Who knows, maybe just one of those mysteries we will never figure out? I have a hard time thinking they are short of anything. They are regularly consuming Purina mineral, hi mag fly, I add a, d, and e vitamin supp to it myself. I don't think it's the mineral. I think it's the fescue, but can't make sense of why cows are slick and hfrs and calves are not.