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would like to raise 2 steer for beef..
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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 669807" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>Save your money - just feed them WHOLE SHELLED CORN. Well, lets back-tract. How much will they weigh? How old?</p><p>If they are extremely young/small, they will need whole shell corn with a protein pellet added to bring the protein level up. If they are 200# calves - they will need about a 16%-18% protein ration. If they are 500#, they will need about 14%, and you would decrease the amount of protein until they are around 750#. By that time, they should be consuming 20-25# shell corn/hd/day and they won't need additional protein. Of course, they also need good grass hay & a good water source and free-choice mineral.</p><p>You need to start them out with about 1% of their body weight in grain. After 1 week, you can start upping them slowly til you reach 3% of their body weight.</p><p>Corn is about a 9% protein. You can ask the feed store/mill how much of their protein pellet to add to the shell corn to have that % protein for their weights.</p><p>You will have a lot of people tell you that you "have" to crack/ flake / roll/ ground / corn. YOU DO NOT! Research has proven cattle will perform just as well on straight shell corn.</p><p>I show cattle, and my show string gets shell corn + protein pellets. My husband used to be a nutritionist for a feed mill. We've played with lots of fancy feeds over the years. Whole shell corn is under-rated. You can check out our web site & see that we raise our cattle out pretty well.</p><p>We don't finish steers any more, but I am a beef state advisor for the NY Junior Beef Assn. and I work with lots of kids feeding out steers.</p><p>So you decided to get Holsteins. Any special reason why you didn't choose to get a beef animal. You realize that they will never get as much red meat on them as a beef breed? At least a Brown Swiss is meatier than a Holstein. Hopefully, you are not going to venture buying month old calves. If so, good luck. You might need it. That can be a hard way to go without experience.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 669807, member: 968"] Save your money - just feed them WHOLE SHELLED CORN. Well, lets back-tract. How much will they weigh? How old? If they are extremely young/small, they will need whole shell corn with a protein pellet added to bring the protein level up. If they are 200# calves - they will need about a 16%-18% protein ration. If they are 500#, they will need about 14%, and you would decrease the amount of protein until they are around 750#. By that time, they should be consuming 20-25# shell corn/hd/day and they won't need additional protein. Of course, they also need good grass hay & a good water source and free-choice mineral. You need to start them out with about 1% of their body weight in grain. After 1 week, you can start upping them slowly til you reach 3% of their body weight. Corn is about a 9% protein. You can ask the feed store/mill how much of their protein pellet to add to the shell corn to have that % protein for their weights. You will have a lot of people tell you that you "have" to crack/ flake / roll/ ground / corn. YOU DO NOT! Research has proven cattle will perform just as well on straight shell corn. I show cattle, and my show string gets shell corn + protein pellets. My husband used to be a nutritionist for a feed mill. We've played with lots of fancy feeds over the years. Whole shell corn is under-rated. You can check out our web site & see that we raise our cattle out pretty well. We don't finish steers any more, but I am a beef state advisor for the NY Junior Beef Assn. and I work with lots of kids feeding out steers. So you decided to get Holsteins. Any special reason why you didn't choose to get a beef animal. You realize that they will never get as much red meat on them as a beef breed? At least a Brown Swiss is meatier than a Holstein. Hopefully, you are not going to venture buying month old calves. If so, good luck. You might need it. That can be a hard way to go without experience. [/QUOTE]
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