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I undrerstand that you will put her back on her normal ration after the show. Please understand, though, that if you ever get a breeding heifer too fat, it does irreversible damage. Fat will be deposited around the ovaries and in the udder. From then on you will have a hard breeder and poor...

That should be a good one. I mix my own feed and mine is 11.5% protein and 5+% fat.

It really depends on your ration and what your goals are. I mix a ration that is very similar to aaok's ration. I can grow and finish steers giving them 2 to 2 1/2% of their body weight. Our heifers I grow out on the same ration at 1 1/2% of their body weight. If I need to fatten one a little...

Looks to be a little straight in the shoulder and rear legs.  Looks like he'll have plenty of hair for Ft Worth. Have fun with him and good luck.

You can mix any amount of feed you need with those percentages. I've mixed feed from as much as two tons at a time in my vertical mixer all the way down to 100 pound batches in a hand mixer. My steers perform really well on this ration. I am currently feeding two steers. One weighs 1140 pounds...

I've been using a ration that is by no means hot, but I've finished even the most hard to finish steers on it. The ration is: 45.75% cracked corn 20% whole oats 17.5% cottonseed hulls 12.75% soybean meal 1.5% mineral package 1.5% liquafat 1% digestamax I will tweak the ration in some...

That's a great idea 5PCC. we used to feed oat groats to our show pigs when I was growing up to hold them. Never even crossed my mind to use them on cattle as well.

My son has a steer we are targeting for an October show. He currently weighs 1140 pounds and is getting too fat too early. I thought about supplementing him with the fitter 35 to burn some fat and build muscle. Can the same thing be accomplished simply by increasing the soybean meal in his...

I read a university of Kentucky study today that said you can give a cow 1 synovex h implant per 100 lbs of body weight. It said the affects last 6 months, but the cow is no longer usable in your breeding herd. At less than $1 per implant, this my be the way to go. Implant a cow that you are...

Testosterone propionate is an ingredient in synovex h implants. It's still also widely used in the race horse industry on castrated horses. A good vet can get you some as it is prescription only, but it's not cheap. Certainly cheaper than keeping a spotter bull around. Thanks justintime for the...

I've got a group of cows up to A.I.  I've always used a spotter bull, but I've sold mine as it's been a number of years since I've done any A.I. work. I breed on natural heats, no synchronization. Does anyone know what the dosage of testosterone propionate is to turn an open cow into a spotter cow?