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<blockquote data-quote="shortybreeder" data-source="post: 1238348" data-attributes="member: 21626"><p>That is a terrible idea for a beef steer. To gain 4-5lbs a day he's gonna have to eat around 30lbs/day of grain. Without the hay to keep the rumen under control, he will bloat up like a balloon and die. Hay should be offered free choice, as much as the steer will eat. Sometimes you can get by without feeding a dairy steer hay, but they have been bred to handle extremely high energy diets whereas beef cattle have been bred to handle mostly forage-based diets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shortybreeder, post: 1238348, member: 21626"] That is a terrible idea for a beef steer. To gain 4-5lbs a day he's gonna have to eat around 30lbs/day of grain. Without the hay to keep the rumen under control, he will bloat up like a balloon and die. Hay should be offered free choice, as much as the steer will eat. Sometimes you can get by without feeding a dairy steer hay, but they have been bred to handle extremely high energy diets whereas beef cattle have been bred to handle mostly forage-based diets. [/QUOTE]
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