Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Forums
Cattle Boards
Feedyard Board
Starting a small backgrounding/feedyard
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support CattleToday:
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Texas PaPaw" data-source="post: 1543576" data-attributes="member: 2905"><p>Been my experience that given free choice medium quality hay and all they will eat mixed feed, the calves will eat about 2% of BW of mixed feed and 1/2% BW of hay. Wouldn't put any gin trash in mix using self feeder as will probably bridge. If using whole cottonseed can probably use 10% without too much bridging. Can probably feed them 45-60 days without getting too fleshy. Feeding a good ration over 60 days may get them too fleshy and using a diluted lower energy ration will usually drive up your cost of gain.</p><p></p><p>Suggest googling "osunrc2013". This is a ration formulation spreadsheet. Download the sheet and instructions then spend several hours running different mixes and daily feed amounts to come up with optimum mix/feeding level. My experience is if accurate info is entered into sheet, the actual daily gains and cost of gain will be very close to what the sheet calculates.</p><p></p><p>Just another 2 cents worth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Texas PaPaw, post: 1543576, member: 2905"] Been my experience that given free choice medium quality hay and all they will eat mixed feed, the calves will eat about 2% of BW of mixed feed and 1/2% BW of hay. Wouldn't put any gin trash in mix using self feeder as will probably bridge. If using whole cottonseed can probably use 10% without too much bridging. Can probably feed them 45-60 days without getting too fleshy. Feeding a good ration over 60 days may get them too fleshy and using a diluted lower energy ration will usually drive up your cost of gain. Suggest googling "osunrc2013". This is a ration formulation spreadsheet. Download the sheet and instructions then spend several hours running different mixes and daily feed amounts to come up with optimum mix/feeding level. My experience is if accurate info is entered into sheet, the actual daily gains and cost of gain will be very close to what the sheet calculates. Just another 2 cents worth. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Cattle Boards
Feedyard Board
Starting a small backgrounding/feedyard
Top