Cattle ration

[Haydn Lloyd]

Got a couple of cattle for welsh winter fair next week. Been on a 14% ration. What can be given to harden the muck up as just shutting abit loose. On Adlib and free access to straw.

 

[Danllan]

Damn... I thought this would be about something else and was going to suggest no more than one a day...

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Got a couple of cattle for welsh winter fair next week. Been on a 14% ration. What can be given to harden the muck up as just shutting abit loose. On Adlib and free access to straw.

SB pulp

 

[beefandsleep]

Got a couple of cattle for welsh winter fair next week. Been on a 14% ration. What can be given to harden the muck up as just shutting abit loose. On Adlib and free access to straw.

Hay

 

[Haydn Lloyd]

Just bought beet pulp actually was gonna mix in some oats on a bit of hay but could be too good

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Just bought beet pulp actually was gonna mix in some oats on a bit of hay but could be too good

Beet pulp will sort them out..hay will give them gut

 

[Whitepeak]

Beet pulp will sort them out..hay will give them gut

We used to feed beet pulp to dairy heifers to make them fill out and give them more rib or belly for showing. Not sure you'd want that on a fatstock beast

 

[Northeastfarmer]

We used to feed beet pulp to dairy heifers to make them fill out and give them more rib or belly for showing. Not sure you'd want that on a fatstock beast

All my finishing cattle get a small amount of beet pulp

 

[Cowcalf]

ours get adlib pedigree bull crunch, 4 going to Lanark and on to Welsh others going to Thainstone

 

[Dealer]

Feed your normal ration in small amounts through the day

Adlib forage

Increase Ruman ph will let the microbes digest the forage and breakdown the digestible starches slower

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Feed your normal ration in small amounts through the day

Adlib forage

Increase Ruman ph will let the microbes digest the forage and breakdown the digestible starches slower

Finishing cattle need to be on ad-lib hard feed

 

[Dealer]

Really

Maximum growth rate will be 2kg per day ish

Feeding enough to get to this is all that is needed anymore is just wasted and passes straight through

Little and often will convert better than large sudden amounts

Keep the ph right and long fibre to make the gut work

Do cattle really need 10kg plus of hard feed to gain 2kg ?

 

[Skintagain]

We used to feed beet pulp to dairy heifers to make them fill out and give them more rib or belly for showing. Not sure you'd want that on a fatstock beast

It's a healthy feed.

 

[neilo]

Really

Maximum growth rate will be 2kg per day ish

Feeding enough to get to this is all that is needed anymore is just wasted and passes straight through

Little and often will convert better than large sudden amounts

Keep the ph right and long fibre to make the gut work

Do cattle really need 10kg plus of hard feed to gain 2kg ?

I don’t think the op is so concerned about economic beef production, but more having them at 110% at the Welsh Winter Fair, e very different game.

 

[Pistonbroke]

Soak the best pulp. They'll drink less and it won't make them gutty. Only a week to go I wouldn't make big changes if I was you

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Little and often will convert better than large sudden amounts

Ad lib isn’t large sudden amounts...they eat it as and when they please...a bit like us humans unless you’re in jail

 

[Whitepeak]

All my finishing cattle get a small amount of beet pulp

Yes small amounts will be fine. But if you feed a large amount it will swell in the gut and fill out your beast potentially making a show beast look gutty I'd have thought
I'd just drop the meal and feed just hay for a day or 2 before the show to dry them up. You shouldn't lose any condition in that time. You can always feed the meal once at the show as it helps settle them to have a familiar feed.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Yes small amounts will be fine. But if you feed a large amount it will swell in the gut and fill out your beast potentially making a show beast look gutty I'd have thought
I'd just drop the meal and feed just hay for a day or 2 before the show to dry them up. You shouldn't lose any condition in that time. You can always feed the meal once at the show as it helps settle them to have a familiar feed.

Hay I’ll make them more gutty than pulp will....but do as you please

 

[sherg]

Got a couple of cattle for welsh winter fair next week. Been on a 14% ration. What can be given to harden the muck up as just shutting abit loose. On Adlib and free access to straw.

What type of straw?

 

[Haydn Lloyd]

Wheat straw. The barley is too soft. So just the ration a bit putting some soaked beetpulp and rolled oats. Found some coarse Hay just a bit seem to be firming up.