Sandy Hook, MB | proud2Bafarmer - 3/26/2013 06:29 Are those stockers that you bought just to put gain on? I didn't see calves, but I might not have been paying attention. Looks like a pay day to me.
Hello Proud2Bafarmer
My cull cows: bad feet, bad udders, & the young Hereford cow has no depth to her body & is uncooperative when it comes time to move them. She's not a "heads up" cow, quiet until it's time to move them, then she wants to go her own way & that scares the rest of the herd. She's spoiling the rest of my quiet Herefords. I'm set up for rotational grazing & I don't chase my cattle, I call them & they follow me. I'm getting too old to be chasing after cattle.
Around here guys are culling in the fall after weaning & there are a lot of cows going to market. It always picks up this time of year. Years ago I used to put my culls on rolled barley to fatten them. Since I went to chopped silage, I feed them whatever I've got. I've fattened them on alfalfa/grass, sweet/red clover, red clover/grass, barley, oat, & now corn silage.
I guess I'm about 3 weeks away from what you got there. Until then, I'm going to enjoy my poor man's concrete!
Reason for edit: Spelling & addition
Edited by MCatSHF 3/26/2013 12:25
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