Posted by JD Seller on November 02, 2014 at 07:00:36 from (208.126.198.123):
In Reply to: OT steer feed posted by pat sublett on November 02, 2014 at 05:35:52:
You will need to give him some ground feed to help him grow. With just pasture and hay it will take him way too long to finish out.
What breed of steer is he. That makes a small difference in how you feed them too. Holsteins usually grow faster early but real flatten out when you get to the real top part of finishing them. I usually give them a little higher protein feed until they reach 1000 lbs.
500 lbs. to 1000 lbs. a 14% protein feed is what I use. Then 1000 lbs. to finish a 9-10% feed is good enough. IF you have high protein hay then you can just use ground corn and minerals.
YOU DO NEED TO grind the corn for the steer to get most of the starch out of the kernel. You do not have to powder grind it like for hogs but at least bust every kernel.
Start the steer out with maybe a half a five gallon bucket twice each day. Then after he has been eating that for a few weeks or so then step it up to where he is just cleaning it up a few hours before the next feeding. I never limit feed a steer after they are used to a high energy diet. DO NOT just start to feed him full bore right away. You can founder him. That is why you limit feed him at first.
IF you keep the feed and hay in front of him he will finish out much faster and marbled better over slow feeding him. Most of the time most of my steers are done in under 18 months or so. IF they get much older than that that steer is just not going to finish very well.
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