Mueller Show Cattle
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One of our walks alone steers that we sold to a local 4-H girl is getting ready to show at county fair in 3 weeks. The steer is at 1100 lbs rite now and was wanting it to be around 1200 lbs but might fall a little short of that. The problem is that steer has really slowed down with it's feed intake I think from the rising temperatures. This is there 1st year and they don't have the set up that we do with a cooler room, they have been trying to use a window A/C unit but not working so great. The question is I have read some past posts and know to try and keep the steer as cool as possible, is there any other secrets to help the steer take in more grain? I was going to give them some of my Cellarator X to see if that will help if get it's appetite back along with maybe putting some molasses on the grain to make it sweet and see if that helps. Any other tricks to try get the steer to eat as much as possible in these last 3 weeks? It was putting on 4 lbs a day weight gain for awhile but has dropped off when it stopped eating as much grain. It was a late started steer but gained great until the past 10 days or so, just trying to get another 100 lbs or as much as possible in the last 3 weeks. Thanks for any hep.