Posted by Iowa Farmer on February 24, 2009 at 14:41:23 from (207.32.47.135):
In Reply to: Re: Feed vs Meat Flavor posted by Nebraska Cowman on February 24, 2009 at 04:22:16:
I agree with Cowman, once they get over 900 pounds, their diet should have only a small amount of forage in it. It is simply used as in "scratch" the rumen to aid in digestion. As Cowman also said, at finish, there should only be about 1.5 lbs. of roughage in their diet. ALOT of big time cattle feeders blend in damaged corn and other damaged feedstuffs into their rations with their TMR mixers, so I wouldn't sweat giving them some low quality forage, as long as they are getting all the shelled corn they want. You may want to go to limit feeding them their hay as they go on full feed of grain, as some calves will eat all hay one day, then load up on corn the next. Not good. Some guys get along great this way, but I've never been brave enough to try. On an offhand comment, I wonder if a guy had alot of Pigweed in his silage, if nitrate poisionng would be a problem. Just a thought, and hopefully someone will have more insight here.
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