Posted by WA-Hal on September 03, 2009 at 15:46:12 from (208.81.157.90):
In Reply to: Re: OT Feeding beef posted by cj in wisconsin on September 03, 2009 at 09:59:54:
That is what we always did. Our cattle got all the hay they wanted. And after we built our feed bunk attached to the hay barn, the hay wasted went down to almost zero. Our mostly alfalfa hay was always conditioned, and the cows ate the flattened stems just fine.
We usually fed about 40 cattle of various sizes, so I suppose there was somewhat of a pecking order. The big cows probably got most of the leaves and blossoms from the alfalfa, and the younger animals probably got mostly stems and grass. But our cattle always wintered over just fine, and we usually had the cows have their calves in late March or April. The younger animals probably did not gain weight like they did during the Summer, but they always looked really good at the end of feeding season. We usually turned them out to pasture in May.
Well fed cattle are a whole lot easier to keep in, too. Good luck!
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