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<blockquote data-quote="IluvABbeef" data-source="post: 548547" data-attributes="member: 3739"><p>15 months?? If you do the calculations right, you buy feeder steers at 5-6 months, then feed them up for <strong>12 months</strong>, then sell them. But that's just for backgrounding them. I guess 15 months isn't all that bad for feeding them up to slaughter. I have experience with feeder steers, 16+ years of it. We bought the steer calves at 5 or 6 months of age, right off their mommas, in the fall (depending on the time we get them, sometimes it could be in the middle of winter (december), sometimes early fall (i.e., september). They are fed ad libitum (free choice) alfalfa/grass hay, and barley silage for the rest of the winter/fall and winter into early spring. We don't measure how much feed they get per day when feeding hay and silage, because like I said they are fed free choice. With the silage they put on weight pretty good - no feed cubes necessary. All the supplement they get is a mineral block...although I would suggest stay away from the mineral block, just feed them the mineral that comes in a bag. Then come late May - mid June they are put on pasture with just the salt block and water, and are rotated every few weeks (we got a few fair-size pastures) until early-mid September, depending on the growing season and/or the prices. Those steers gain well on pasture, last year we had some really nice animals from just being fed pasture (must've been the orchard grass). The steers get shipped out around Labor Day weekend every September, and the cycle starts over again. BTW, the steers are shipped to a feedlot, that's why I mentioned backgrounding.</p><p></p><p>So from that hay, silage and grass (ESPECIALLY grass) is the lowest cost way to fatten up those steers to slaughter. It's a fair bit of an investment to supplement with cubes and grain, like the feedlots do; and not cheap either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IluvABbeef, post: 548547, member: 3739"] 15 months?? If you do the calculations right, you buy feeder steers at 5-6 months, then feed them up for [b]12 months[/b], then sell them. But that's just for backgrounding them. I guess 15 months isn't all that bad for feeding them up to slaughter. I have experience with feeder steers, 16+ years of it. We bought the steer calves at 5 or 6 months of age, right off their mommas, in the fall (depending on the time we get them, sometimes it could be in the middle of winter (december), sometimes early fall (i.e., september). They are fed ad libitum (free choice) alfalfa/grass hay, and barley silage for the rest of the winter/fall and winter into early spring. We don't measure how much feed they get per day when feeding hay and silage, because like I said they are fed free choice. With the silage they put on weight pretty good - no feed cubes necessary. All the supplement they get is a mineral block...although I would suggest stay away from the mineral block, just feed them the mineral that comes in a bag. Then come late May - mid June they are put on pasture with just the salt block and water, and are rotated every few weeks (we got a few fair-size pastures) until early-mid September, depending on the growing season and/or the prices. Those steers gain well on pasture, last year we had some really nice animals from just being fed pasture (must've been the orchard grass). The steers get shipped out around Labor Day weekend every September, and the cycle starts over again. BTW, the steers are shipped to a feedlot, that's why I mentioned backgrounding. So from that hay, silage and grass (ESPECIALLY grass) is the lowest cost way to fatten up those steers to slaughter. It's a fair bit of an investment to supplement with cubes and grain, like the feedlots do; and not cheap either. [/QUOTE]
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