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White fat cows how do you get them that way?
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Beefbiz
Posted 1/8/2019 21:56 (#7231074 - in reply to #7229785)
Subject: RE: White fat cows how do you get them that way?


all over Iowa

For an implant, I'd use a basic Synovex S - you're not going to put much more muscle on a mature cow and you are wanting to put fat on her, so I'd stay away from the TBA.

I like whole shell corn in finishing diets, but I know I'm in the minority. The trick with whole corn rations is to make sure you don't get behind the cattle; in order to digest the whole corn you have to slow the rate of passage down so you don't want to over do the roughage and you never want the cattle to get overly hungry.

Mature cows also don't need a high protein diet because they eat so dang much they just make it up in volume. You can use all of those ingredients along with a supplement containing some urea and Rumensin. Something like 5# of mixed hay, 10# of silage, the supplement and all the corn they can eat should put good condition on them, just be sure to work them up on the corn over a few weeks.

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