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<blockquote data-quote="Alberta farmer" data-source="post: 596363" data-attributes="member: 8978"><p>I pretty well go with Bez and Aaron on the cow feed thing. A dry cow sure doesn't need a lot of protein to maintain herself. If she goes into winter in decent shape it doesn't hurt her to lose a few pounds?</p><p>An alphafa/grass mix will be in that 12% range and that is more than she needs. We always feed test and feed two row barley straw to target that 7% range. No fancy haybuster, just roll it out and let them go to it.</p><p>We don't calve until May so don't get all bent out of shape about feeding better near the end although we will be keeping the better stuff for the end. </p><p>Don't need to start feeding cows until Christmas unless the snow is to deep. They go on stockpiled native grass usually about Nov. 1st and if they don't get it cleaned up it is still there in April.</p><p>This last year we left the calves out with cows until April 1st. and weaned them onto decent hay. The first cow calved May 2! Worked pretty good only 3 open out of 130 cows this fall. Most of the older cows kicked their calves off around February...some of the young ones never did!</p><p>The yearlings sold off grass in August. Steers avg. 941 lbs. heifers 872.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alberta farmer, post: 596363, member: 8978"] I pretty well go with Bez and Aaron on the cow feed thing. A dry cow sure doesn't need a lot of protein to maintain herself. If she goes into winter in decent shape it doesn't hurt her to lose a few pounds? An alphafa/grass mix will be in that 12% range and that is more than she needs. We always feed test and feed two row barley straw to target that 7% range. No fancy haybuster, just roll it out and let them go to it. We don't calve until May so don't get all bent out of shape about feeding better near the end although we will be keeping the better stuff for the end. Don't need to start feeding cows until Christmas unless the snow is to deep. They go on stockpiled native grass usually about Nov. 1st and if they don't get it cleaned up it is still there in April. This last year we left the calves out with cows until April 1st. and weaned them onto decent hay. The first cow calved May 2! Worked pretty good only 3 open out of 130 cows this fall. Most of the older cows kicked their calves off around February...some of the young ones never did! The yearlings sold off grass in August. Steers avg. 941 lbs. heifers 872. [/QUOTE]
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