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Bull beef

  • 07-10-2010 10:18am
    #1
    clover 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭


    just enquiring about feeding levels required for max gain in bull beef production, and how does silage suit as part of the diet. Bullweanlings approx 380 kgs


Comments

  • #2
    woodie5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭woodie5


    Check out recent editions of the farmers journal. They even have a winter finishing topic this week.

    You could also look up the teagasc website and put in bull rations in their search engine.

    Hope this helps.:)


  • #3
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    clover 1 wrote: »
    just enquiring about feeding levels required for max gain in bull beef production, and how does silage suit as part of the diet. Bullweanlings approx 380 kgs
    i think your bulls wil have to be let grow and get a bigger frame first and when they are 480kilos then start to push them.


  • #4
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    leg wax wrote: »
    i think your bulls wil have to be let grow and get a bigger frame first and when they are 480kilos then start to push them.

    Isn't that the reason why they recommend that you feed weinlings a meal with a high protein % - so that their frames will grow. Then for finishing they recommend a meal with a lower protein % which will be better for muscle growth and weight gain????


  • #5
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    I understood it as, Protein to grow cattle and then Energy to put finish on them.

    Protein is expensive, that's why they reduce it at the end. It's more to do with cost really. They say that even for the finishing period, they dont need minerals. I think most people put them in as they are cheap enough, in the overall cost of things.


  • #6
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    clover 1 wrote: »
    just enquiring about feeding levels required for max gain in bull beef production, and how does silage suit as part of the diet. Bullweanlings approx 380 kgs
    reilig wrote: »
    Isn't that the reason why they recommend that you feed weinlings a meal with a high protein % - so that their frames will grow. Then for finishing they recommend a meal with a lower protein % which will be better for muscle growth and weight gain????
    sorry i thought that clover was looking to get max weight gain now at a starting weight of 380 kgs as if he was starting to finish them now. i never said he was not to feed them, yes i agree with every thing you have said and later i will be asking for some advice on something about outwintering the same weight weanlings and recomended meal feeding levals.


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