Lb94 - 6/2/2021 08:30
clicker - 6/2/2021 07:54
will take forever to finish on that ration. Give them straw or only a couple lbs of that sudan hay unprocessed, and up the corn until they quit slicking the bunks, should be at 25 lbs. by 1000 lbs., replace the gluten with ddgs or a protein pellet. You have to make the ration energy dense if you want to lay on finish.
I'm glad I asked I was afraid of the opposite pushing that size of calf too hard. Going to start taking out roughage through the week this week and creeping more corn in.
I priced a while back a steakmaker pellet i believe that the coop's feed salesmen said was a good one he had some feeders on around here. I did some figuring and I think was going to cost me an extra $25/hd to use the stuff however that was figuring apples to apples in gains. From what I understand there's N in those pellets as I think they were 40% cp would the cattle gain more efficiently on those than the gluten and urea mixed in? I have a group of stocker calves I graze out on my pastures that I supplement the gluten pellets to and so far I've liked using gluten for the stockers vs. ddgs as I felt the ddgs got them fleshier on grass so that's why I was using the gluten in the fat cattle ration just since I always have a wagon full of it.
Critique My Finishing Ration
