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New Mexico | and that should cut the overload risk.
Also thinking approx 17 lbs will throttle their grain intake towards the 8 lb per head per day range.
Barley is 95% of corn from a fattening standpoint. Oats of course a true Grow type grain.
Thinking you'd be best off ( cost wise and cattle wise both ) to just hand feed em the grain daily.
Say 1.25 to 1.5 lbs of grain mix per 100 lbs of calf weight.
Depends some on your winter...real cold ( real wet cold really sucks ie low ambient temp kinda weather ) calves can handle 2 lbs of grain per 100 lbs bodyweight to get em thru the cold snaps ( extra calories is heat ).
Edited by Markwright 12/17/2010 22:57
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feeding barley too calves?
