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<blockquote data-quote="houstoncutter" data-source="post: 826095" data-attributes="member: 807"><p>BC very seldom will i have an excess of grass to justify the purchase of the equipment to put up balage...I agree that it is away around our usually wet springs....If I am going to have an excess I would rather purchase a few more animals to play clean up. Most years I have always purchased tested hay. 9%protein is good enogh for me if it has a decent TDN. That is high enough to get about 1 pound of gain without supplements.... other than mineral and salt. It would be nice to feed higher quality hay or balage as you have mentioned, the only problem is consumption. You put that 16% hay in a ring and that 1100 cow is gonna consume about 35 t0 40 lbs on a nice day and even more on a bad weather day. I want that cow to work eating those winter weeds and moss and other things that are growing in the woods. At times I will use salty range meal to increase her consumption of woody forage.....I was really torn on selling my last group of animals as I had raised all of them from heifers and they were trained quite well, many of the cows would even eat chinese tallow which is a real scourge for us here in this part of Texas, and this group of animals were teaching the calfs to eat the tallows as well. Hurricane Ike threw a monkey wrench in my plans because it made me have to hold over selling calves, that normally would have been sold in Sept.. So I had extra sales of calfs in one year and hay that year went through the roof here in Texas. The herd was older and it made sense to sell it due to the tax advantages that are avaiable after your area has been declared a disaster area, plus we had the drought declaration as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="houstoncutter, post: 826095, member: 807"] BC very seldom will i have an excess of grass to justify the purchase of the equipment to put up balage...I agree that it is away around our usually wet springs....If I am going to have an excess I would rather purchase a few more animals to play clean up. Most years I have always purchased tested hay. 9%protein is good enogh for me if it has a decent TDN. That is high enough to get about 1 pound of gain without supplements.... other than mineral and salt. It would be nice to feed higher quality hay or balage as you have mentioned, the only problem is consumption. You put that 16% hay in a ring and that 1100 cow is gonna consume about 35 t0 40 lbs on a nice day and even more on a bad weather day. I want that cow to work eating those winter weeds and moss and other things that are growing in the woods. At times I will use salty range meal to increase her consumption of woody forage.....I was really torn on selling my last group of animals as I had raised all of them from heifers and they were trained quite well, many of the cows would even eat chinese tallow which is a real scourge for us here in this part of Texas, and this group of animals were teaching the calfs to eat the tallows as well. Hurricane Ike threw a monkey wrench in my plans because it made me have to hold over selling calves, that normally would have been sold in Sept.. So I had extra sales of calfs in one year and hay that year went through the roof here in Texas. The herd was older and it made sense to sell it due to the tax advantages that are avaiable after your area has been declared a disaster area, plus we had the drought declaration as well. [/QUOTE]
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