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When is the "best" time to harvest a steer? (pics)
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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 682317" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>Thank you FW, I must have missed that thread the first time through. It has a lot of good discussion points in it.</p><p></p><p>I am probably closer to Angie's line of thinking. The photos don't show it as much as looking at him up close but this Baldy above (#81) already has a fair amount of fat visible on him. If I put him in the standing corn he may end up as a lard bucket.</p><p></p><p>My market likes lean, but tasty (some IMF) beef. I think I will keep him on grazing another month or so. I have been lucky so far with the clover, rotation and showers when I need them. That may stop in August and I don't want him to lose condition.</p><p></p><p>So I'll see how the pastures hold out and leave him on grazing as long as possible. This will be my no-corn experiment. We'll see how the meat turns out. By the way, #81 is out of one of my "target" 1200 lb Hereford cows rather than one of my 1500 lb cows.</p><p></p><p>It would be nice to develop a herd that can finish nicely mostly on grass. One of the things that caused me to post these were that I was not aware that a steer could put on this much "fat" by grazing alone.</p><p></p><p>Thank you for the replies. Any other comments are welcome. I also appreciate the comments in the previous thread above. Farm writer, I was looking at the picture of your steer on the day of his last trailer ride and to my eye he seemed a bit similar to my #81 above. How did the meat turn out from yours in the prior thread?</p><p></p><p>Edit: One thing that may have had an effect on #81's condition is that fact he was grazing corn all last winter. Here's a picture from Feb 22, 2009 when they were on the last section of standing corn. May this corn over the winter helped 81 put on fat on grazing now???</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.ranchers.net/photopost/data/500/IMG_4048_1_steer_81_grazing_corn_022209.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 682317, member: 7509"] Thank you FW, I must have missed that thread the first time through. It has a lot of good discussion points in it. I am probably closer to Angie's line of thinking. The photos don't show it as much as looking at him up close but this Baldy above (#81) already has a fair amount of fat visible on him. If I put him in the standing corn he may end up as a lard bucket. My market likes lean, but tasty (some IMF) beef. I think I will keep him on grazing another month or so. I have been lucky so far with the clover, rotation and showers when I need them. That may stop in August and I don't want him to lose condition. So I'll see how the pastures hold out and leave him on grazing as long as possible. This will be my no-corn experiment. We'll see how the meat turns out. By the way, #81 is out of one of my "target" 1200 lb Hereford cows rather than one of my 1500 lb cows. It would be nice to develop a herd that can finish nicely mostly on grass. One of the things that caused me to post these were that I was not aware that a steer could put on this much "fat" by grazing alone. Thank you for the replies. Any other comments are welcome. I also appreciate the comments in the previous thread above. Farm writer, I was looking at the picture of your steer on the day of his last trailer ride and to my eye he seemed a bit similar to my #81 above. How did the meat turn out from yours in the prior thread? Edit: One thing that may have had an effect on #81's condition is that fact he was grazing corn all last winter. Here's a picture from Feb 22, 2009 when they were on the last section of standing corn. May this corn over the winter helped 81 put on fat on grazing now??? [img]http://www.ranchers.net/photopost/data/500/IMG_4048_1_steer_81_grazing_corn_022209.JPG[/img] [/QUOTE]
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