Adding Fat and Gut

[kobo_ranch]

What are some of your best suggestions to add FAT and FULLNESS thru the gut on a steer.

 

[vc]

Do you mean in a hurry or for the finished product.
I know for in a hurry you can add beetpulp, feed a little alfalfa, or any of the filling products prior to your show, but fat is something that takes time.
Long term, we have fed Stabilized Rice Bran, Glu-coat and some barley for fat, and used a good 3 way grain hay the last 2 months really helped them fill out the gut.

I have also fed Oat-Mo in the past to keep them full and will add some fat, Ground oat hay and molasses, along with their feed.

 

[AAOK]

What are some of your best suggestions to add FAT and FULLNESS thru the gut on a steer.

A good Feed Program which never changes.

 

[DEA]

Do you mean in a hurry or for the finished product.
I know for in a hurry you can add beetpulp, feed a little alfalfa, or any of the filling products prior to your show, but fat is something that takes time.
Long term, we have fed Stabilized Rice Bran, Glu-coat and some barley for fat, and used a good 3 way grain hay the last 2 months really helped them fill out the gut.

I have also fed Oat-Mo in the past to keep them full and will add some fat, Ground oat hay and molasses, along with their feed.

What did you think of Glu-coat?  How did it work for you?

 

[LostFarmer]

What are some of your best suggestions to add FAT and FULLNESS thru the gut on a steer.

A good Feed Program which never changes.

That is so much more true than most think.  Feeding consistently at the same time, the same amount and observing the results is a key.  My 10 year old was telling me last night that the L9 calf was finally eating enough grain.  I asked him how he knew and he told be he was looking as one of his manure piles and the oat hulls are coming through.  Watching what goes in is almost as important as seeing what comes out.  You can then make judgments on what is going on in the middle.  LF

 

[vc]

DEA, we had 2 steers last year, one easy doing one hard doing, I do not think that the harder doing steer would have made it with out the Glu-coat It helped increase his appetite, calmed him down and helped with his cover. We did take the easier doing steer off of it the last 2 months, he did not need it. He was one that just feeding regular was enough. They started 5 pounds apart and finished 130 apart It would have been even worse with out the Glu-coat. (the steer it helped had some attitude issues that really subsided about 2 weeks after we started feeding it)

Keep it away from the dogs, they ate 2 of the plunging spouts before I put it up high so they could not get to it.

 

[kobo_ranch]

We haven't tried the Glu coat as of yet.  Just now son told me that one of the steers has the scours, the other two are fine.  All fed the same ratios of feed.  So I'm sure one of them isn't used to either the rice bran or the extra barley.  We've also been feeding some ole rough regular sudan hay. 
Not sure whats causing the one steer to scour but son said he just ate a bit then went and laid down.
May have put too much on them to quick.  Better back off a bit huh...

 

[DEA]

DEA, we had 2 steers last year, one easy doing one hard doing, I do not think that the harder doing steer would have made it with out the Glu-coat It helped increase his appetite, calmed him down and helped with his cover. We did take the easier doing steer off of it the last 2 months, he did not need it. He was one that just feeding regular was enough. They started 5 pounds apart and finished 130 apart It would have been even worse with out the Glu-coat. (the steer it helped had some attitude issues that really subsided about 2 weeks after we started feeding it)

Keep it away from the dogs, they ate 2 of the plunging spouts before I put it up high so they could not get to it.

Did you use Glu-coat from start to finish or only in the finishing stages? 

 

[vc]

We fed it from January to June to the one and from January to April on the other, I think it was like 2-3 pumps once a day.