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<blockquote data-quote="Fire Sweep Ranch" data-source="post: 1105881" data-attributes="member: 18809"><p>Another thought that was brought up by Anne: How feeding makes a difference!</p><p></p><p>Several days ago, I posted a thread about our steers we are raising for the county carcass contest. One is a June 13, and weighed in at 950 pounds (for a 8 month old calf). This calf was weaned in November (so 5 months) because we were flushing his dam so we wanted to put some weight on her. He was put on grain. He, along with the other steer that is 1010 pounds and a December, are gobbling up 50 pounds of a cheap winter creep daily.</p><p>This steer calf had a 3/4 sib brother (the steer's dam is the other calf's grandam), same bull and only different in birth dates by 2 days. We left the brother a bull, and left him out with the cows as a teaser bull calf for breeding the fall cows. No grain, just hay, milk and chasing cows in heat. We pulled him in and weaned him at 7 months and he was 696 pounds. There is a big difference in weight, ONLY BECAUSE the steer has had access to 25 pounds of grain a day since November, versus the bull calf had not. </p><p>FEEDING makes a huge difference in weaning weights. But genetics have to be there to make it happen!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fire Sweep Ranch, post: 1105881, member: 18809"] Another thought that was brought up by Anne: How feeding makes a difference! Several days ago, I posted a thread about our steers we are raising for the county carcass contest. One is a June 13, and weighed in at 950 pounds (for a 8 month old calf). This calf was weaned in November (so 5 months) because we were flushing his dam so we wanted to put some weight on her. He was put on grain. He, along with the other steer that is 1010 pounds and a December, are gobbling up 50 pounds of a cheap winter creep daily. This steer calf had a 3/4 sib brother (the steer's dam is the other calf's grandam), same bull and only different in birth dates by 2 days. We left the brother a bull, and left him out with the cows as a teaser bull calf for breeding the fall cows. No grain, just hay, milk and chasing cows in heat. We pulled him in and weaned him at 7 months and he was 696 pounds. There is a big difference in weight, ONLY BECAUSE the steer has had access to 25 pounds of grain a day since November, versus the bull calf had not. FEEDING makes a huge difference in weaning weights. But genetics have to be there to make it happen! [/QUOTE]
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