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Faster horses
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Joined: 11 Feb 2005
Posts: 19605
Location: SE MT
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You have a good one too, lazy ace and your super sweet wife.
She's a dandy, that one!
Thanks again for the picture of the horses. Getting it framed
right now. Found a perfect frame for it, I did.
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Northern Rancher
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Joined: 10 Feb 2005
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Location: saskatchewan
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| If they're getting all the decent hay they can eat and some good grass that's all a profitable beef heifer needs to breed. Ten pounds of grain a day is for developing sows not cows-that puts absolutely no selection prssure on them for surviving and thriving on forage-if you are short of hay or it's too high priced then a bunch of grain in the ration might make 'economical' sense. I did the welfare heifer thing for years but glad I finally slipped off that treadmill and let them be ruminants again.
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Andy
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Joined: 15 Feb 2005
Posts: 395
Location: south east central SD
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| Our heifers get devoloped on straw, cornstalks, milo stalks and some distillers grain. If I go and look at them and I don't see some thin ones, 2-5%, I think we are feeding them too much WDG. We cut off the bad doers about, 1-3%, and breed the rest. And they breed up great.
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