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New Mexico | once those have peaked ( probably be towards the 950 + range on a decent set of hiefers ) then one will probably blend the ddgs with say half corn to finish em.
SOO until then, since growth in today's cattle is pretty well built in and natural...they'll do that on a fairly cheap ration vs a finishing ration.
Also, feed em to hot a ration now and they will slow down frame growth and start laying on fat to soon.
The corporations which feed ( 3 packers have 3,000,000 + head of their own feeding capacity ) WANT those big feeder cattle ( 850 to 1,000 lb. ).
Corps are in general NOT setup ( nor inclined ) to start calves or light yearlings and put that 300 to 400 lbs of growth on em. Takes to long, thus ties up capital for to long.
Thus the opportunity for the smaller feeders is to do the backgrounding for em, and sell em those 850 to 10 weight feeder cattle.
Tends to be an efficiency feed boost to the 1/2 ddg and 1/2 corn mix on finishing rations ( kind of unexplained so far, but tends to be an approx 20% efficiency / cost savings vs using either product strait for finish ).
Edited by Markwright 12/17/2010 21:31
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Backgounding rations ?s
