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New Mexico | of soaked barley or 3 lbs dry.
Assuming your comping the afore with either 4 lbs ddgs or 4 lbs of corn per day too.
Also assuming your finishing on grass.
Only takes 30 days of barley to unique your beef taste if you've been supping the grass with ddgs ( say 4 lbs per day ) all summer.
If not, hit em harder with the grain for that last 45 days, and run the barley for that 45 days too.
If no barley availability, don't worry bout it, just supp em with ddgs ( say 7 lbs per day ) that last 45 days ( pretty unique beef texture and flavor using ddgs too just not quite as perfect as with the barley, MO ).
The reason some of the Pac Basin countries spec barley in rations for usa export product is the flavor barley adds.
Places like Japan they feed em some beer everyday too, with their barley.
Generally .75 lbs of grain ( air dry basis ) per 100 lbs of cattle bodywieght daily enables almost double your pasture carrying capacity.
Cattle also gain an extra .75 to 1 lb per day too on supped pasture.
Edited by Markwright 9/7/2011 19:34
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Bi-products effect on meat quality/taste?
