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Weighed my cattle his afternoon - calf % cow weights
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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 785155" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>The general rule of thumb (and beware relying on general rules of thumb) is that a cow's steer calves "finish" around her mature weight. In this case, I doubt that is going to be accurate, but take 200 pounds off of that 1913 and you still end up with a target weight of 1700++ lbs. IF the calf weighs 600 lbs now, that means he needs to put on 1100 lbs to reach his finishing target. IF he is finishing at 2.5 lbs per day (a very difficult number to achieve on grass), to achieve THAT weight he is going to have to spend 440 days on pasture finishing. He will be 645 days old by then. If you don't get perfect weather, there is a little bit of a hay letdown, etc and that goes down to 2 lbs of gain per day then we are talking 755 days of age. Heavy weight calves out of heavyweight cows need to go to the feedlot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 785155, member: 7645"] The general rule of thumb (and beware relying on general rules of thumb) is that a cow's steer calves "finish" around her mature weight. In this case, I doubt that is going to be accurate, but take 200 pounds off of that 1913 and you still end up with a target weight of 1700++ lbs. IF the calf weighs 600 lbs now, that means he needs to put on 1100 lbs to reach his finishing target. IF he is finishing at 2.5 lbs per day (a very difficult number to achieve on grass), to achieve THAT weight he is going to have to spend 440 days on pasture finishing. He will be 645 days old by then. If you don't get perfect weather, there is a little bit of a hay letdown, etc and that goes down to 2 lbs of gain per day then we are talking 755 days of age. Heavy weight calves out of heavyweight cows need to go to the feedlot. [/QUOTE]
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