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tx panhandle | Most stockers need 60 days preconditioning to be mainly trouble free on farm ground. Cattle do not gain well in this period. Your ability to and time to doctor on pasture can reduce or eliminate that time.
Stalks in our part of the works great if fenced in wheat pasture. Cattle will gain well. For gains on stockers there has to be a lot of grain easily available in the stalks. Most people prefer cows or big cattle that are in a holding pattern for grazing traditional stalks.
Now going to to wheat, rye, ect that is more protein and cattle will gain better especially if they have a place to get out of the mud. Cattle that go on this need to go to go to more wheat or to feedlot coming off. Cattle will bloom on the excessive protein. The weather they are in will play a factor. There are pretty detailed Texas am stocker cattle spreadsheets that will account for most costs and projections. | |
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Add on to Jaybird from below about stocker/backgrounder diff approach
