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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 604958" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>There are good points made here.</p><p></p><p>Personally I feel that there is, as in most things, a middle ground between the grass-only and high-grain schools of thought.</p><p></p><p>Someone earlier commented that they gave the weaned calves grain because their rumens couldn't hold enough roughage at first. I find a little grain for the weaned calves along with good mineral and hay availability seems to keep them growing. I guess I've averaged about 2.5 lb of grain mix per 600 lb calf per day in the month since weaning.</p><p></p><p>Some of the weaned calves, especially the larger steers, seem like they are always at the hay feeder, some don't seem to eat quite so much hay. They also seem to be going through about 0.8 lb of Mineralyx and about 0.25 lb of kelp per day per calf. The kelp is an experiment.</p><p></p><p>It's tough to say what their hay consumption has been since there is so much waste with the calves and std ring feeder and I moved it to give them some hay to bed on when the temp was near zero (F) last week.</p><p></p><p>They seem to be doing fairly well. I guess what I am trying to say is that I feel there is a useful middle ground between pure nature's way and pure man's way.</p><p></p><p>Here's a a picture of some of the now month-weaned mostly calves</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1[/ATTACH]</p><p></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 604958, member: 7509"] There are good points made here. Personally I feel that there is, as in most things, a middle ground between the grass-only and high-grain schools of thought. Someone earlier commented that they gave the weaned calves grain because their rumens couldn't hold enough roughage at first. I find a little grain for the weaned calves along with good mineral and hay availability seems to keep them growing. I guess I've averaged about 2.5 lb of grain mix per 600 lb calf per day in the month since weaning. Some of the weaned calves, especially the larger steers, seem like they are always at the hay feeder, some don't seem to eat quite so much hay. They also seem to be going through about 0.8 lb of Mineralyx and about 0.25 lb of kelp per day per calf. The kelp is an experiment. It's tough to say what their hay consumption has been since there is so much waste with the calves and std ring feeder and I moved it to give them some hay to bed on when the temp was near zero (F) last week. They seem to be doing fairly well. I guess what I am trying to say is that I feel there is a useful middle ground between pure nature's way and pure man's way. Here's a a picture of some of the now month-weaned mostly calves [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_3587_1.JPG"]1[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_3589_2.JPG"]0[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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