Mark, The calves will be going into corn in January. As I recall last year, they just dug right in. They will be with the bull so maybe just watch him. Sort of like a kid in a candy store - they figure it out pretty quick! Here are a couple pics from last January. These two steers pictured are probably a bit over 800 lb in late Jan. They can put on about 2.5 lb/day or more grazing like this. These two were probably about 950 lb coming off of corn last year. With a bit earlier calving and knowing more about the system my goal this year is to get them at about 1000 coming off of corn.
Jim at Dawn
Edited by Jim 11/19/2009 23:17
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Kids get in trouble for running down corn! Grazing standing corn year 2 (pics)
