04/30/14, 10:16 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Utah
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What kind of cattle are they? What kind of finish weights are you trying to acheive?
If common beef breeds you may be about 100 to 120# shy of starting to feed any supplements. Those cattle are still building structure. Feeding supplements is to put weight on the structure or bring your weaning weight up when the market is high on the next weight class above your calves. Its very expensive. You still have over 500# to get to finish weights. Feeding protien is for building muscle. If you are having to put more than 400#s on in a feedlot, your cost per pound will be somewhere around 20% higher. The feedlots normally feed a high roughage diet up to about 850# and then transition into full feed diets to 1250#.
Another thing is that cattle that young don't assimulate those heavy feeds very well so you will have to feed more to gain a pound.
If these are some kind of smaller framed cattle that will finish smaller, you may be good. That would be a whole different formula.
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