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Owosso MI | Hardest part with holsteins is they grow up before they grow out. They usually unless bred with some other stock are a large animal. We shipped ours at 1200 lbs. That way we maximized meat for bone. We started out with the first ones on dry hay and ground corn. Way too expensive. The next set we ran on green pastures supplemented with some ground corn mix. Still too expensive. Last crew went on green pasture supplemented with silage. Much more cost effective in the long run. Only in the winter did we add in some grain corn to keep up energy. Key to remember is in the cold months, cattle require more to put on pounds as well as stay alive.
If it was me, i would feed corn silage and some dry hay through the winter. In the summer, I would run them on pasture and still feed silage. That should help them grow fast as well as put on weight but not fat weight. Finish with a couple of weeks of grain mixed into the silage. | |
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