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| Un popular practice, but I don’t ever wean the heifers im keeping. I let the cow handle it.
I think in return I get bigger and mature heifers faster. They still have a mom when they calve and you see them in family groups. I feel like I have less problems with heifers that don’t know how to raise a calf, but that may be in my head.
I try and keep protein and fat at good levels adjusting for grass/hay quality with oats, cottonseed, or whatever I can get a deal on. I’ve never tried peanut hay, but it’s cheap this year so I may go buy a small load and see how that works for me.
May as well sell weaned steers and culled heifers though unless your close onto wheat pasture time, I bet 1# a day is about all a guy gets with them on grass this time of year. It’s that time of year to do some math and try and guess if I’m better off putting them on wheat until 800 or so or sale barning them and putting someone else’s on the patch I usually throw mine in. | |
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Running weaned calves and dry cows together?
