This years beef calf

[Ky hills]

15 months old currently, 1/4 Jersey 3/4 beef. Doing things a little different this year, process date is mid October.
Normally I’d be getting about ready to get him up and start building him up to full feed. We don’t have near as many cattle now and pasture is pretty good.
We’ve planned to go out of town at a point that I would be feeding him twice a day. If I let him graze till we get back, and and then start building up again around a little less than 2 months would that still finish decent?
I can maybe possibly find somebody to feed him for me for a week to 10 days if it would make it better.

 

[GoWyo]

I wouldn't start and stop and then start again on the finisher ration. When is your trip?

 

[Dave]

I bought this year's beef yesterday. A 720 pound black heifer. She was limping some when she came in the ring. Had a knee that looked a little swollen. She had been cut from a much larger group. I only had to pay $2.35 so $1,692 total. She is moving fine today. Probably just got beat up some on her ride to town. She is in a 70 by 120 corral with water and actually a lot of grass now. I will get a ton big bag of corn for $400. Some grass hay once she gets the grass cleaned up in all the pens. I will have a nice beef for the freezer with only $2,200 - $2,300 into her.

 

[Ky hills]

I wouldn't start and stop and then start again on the finisher ration. When is your trip?

Later in August.
Yeah I don’t want to be feeding it very heavy and drop off, I would just feed a little along like I normally do to keep them tame and then build up after we get back unless I can find somebody to fill in and feed for me.

 

[GoWyo]

Later in August.
Yeah I don’t want to be feeding it very heavy and drop off, I would just feed a little along like I normally do to keep them tame and then build up after we get back unless I can find somebody to fill in and feed for me.

That would probably work. Kind of like a grower til you get back then shovel the coal to him.

 

[farmerjan]

If he was mine, he would be out to pasture and would get a little supplement while on pasture... right up to the kill date. I do not like alot of fat, and do not "finish" any of our beef... haven't changed the way I do them, even though I cannot eat the beef now with the Alpha Gal... My son ate some of the longhorn/angus steer that I was getting done right when I got this diagnosis, and was so sick from eating beef and didn't know the what and why... he said he is some fine eating... and he never got more than a pound or 2 of grain a couple times a week with the big group.
I just don't see the "grain finishing"... real good grass will do just as much good... and jersey genetics will help him marble just fine.

 

[SDgrampa]

Go to once a day fe3ding if that would be easier for your vacation chore man. Corn is your friend ,feed em

 

[Ky hills]

Go to once a day fe3ding if that would be easier for your vacation chore man. Corn is your friend ,feed em

That’s what I typically do, as I tend to really put condition on them with predominantly corn and just enough of a 3 way ration in which 1/3 of it corn also to keep them eating good in case they don’t transition well to full corn.