cattle weight gain

TUBBY

Hi all
weighed all cattle over weekend.
did my sums,and my daily weight gain per animal for stores was 0.73kg over a full year or just over 250kg a year each. Gives me good idea what weight i need to buy to finish within a year now.

this is working with a decent paddock system and 75dmd silage with not whole lot of meal this year.

how does this compare. Happy enough as it is an average. Doesnt translate to 500 euro gain though

Willfarman

I work on a basis of roughly 250 kgs gain for cattle in 12 months on a grass system. I don't tend to get too caught up in worrying about it. Just keep them going as best I can. The buy in price is my number 1 consideration to have a turn in an animal.

The Cuban

Store cattle continue to put up weight up till the end of October on grass. They should gain at least another 60-100kg between now and then.

Muckit

That's great weight gain. I'd have cattle for almost 2 years and definitely wouldn't be putting 500kg on them in that time. FECK!! Wake up call!

onyerbikepat

250Kg would be about right, I'd say. It all depends on condition starting off (empty stores etc), breed of cattle, feed etc.

Robson99

This years heifers have averaged 0.9kg/per day since purchased. On good quality grass. Very happy with it but have invested in reseeding in the last couple of years so they would want to be putting it on.
Killed a couple of heifers a few weeks ago. 23 and 24 months old. 380 and 400kg carcass. U grade. Purchased June 13. Averaged 0.8kg LWG per day including store period over winter. Got 5lb rolled barley for the last 4 weeks.
You need to be getting on average at least 0.75kg/day on store cattle at grass IMO

freedominacup

.7kg is maintenance no more than that. Anything less and cattle would be losing condition.

onyerbikepat

Guys he does say a full year, in fairness, so that covers a full winter aswell.

TUBBY

onyerbikepat wrote: »

Guys he does say a full year, in fairness, so that covers a full winter aswell.

cheers pat. Yeah includes winter so that lowers ADG.
have decent grassland management but could be better.

do you ever hear land as great fattening land. Not sure if mine would be classed like that.

just interested how i would stack up with others who winter.

Robson99

TUBBY wrote: »

do you ever hear land as great fattening land. Not sure if mine would be classed like that.

Have heard it several times and I think there is something to it. Uncle has same farming system as ourselves, we both buy the same type cattle, yet we can finish them at 20 -24 months while he always is in the 28 -30 month timeframe. He lives about 50 miles away so it probably has a lot to do with soil type /structure

Miname

Thank god for the fact some of you have the same issue. ive been pushing to try and get 1kg a day average. Ive 4 weanling bulls to sell shortly, onmeal for the last 3 weeks and an adg of 1.2kg and that is including 1 twin. otherwise heifers here that im fattening have an adg of .8kg. i thought 1kg was kinda the average. a lad in our disscussion group had a couple of bulls last year done 1.7 on no meal, but they were the exceptional ones.

Greengrass1

TUBBY wrote: »

cheers pat. Yeah includes winter so that lowers ADG.
have decent grassland management but could be better.

do you ever hear land as great fattening land. Not sure if mine would be classed like that.

just interested how i would stack up with others who winter.

Our out farm is peaty type and our heifers are mud fat on it.
Way too fat for my liking.
Two AA heifers over there 480kgs and fat too.18mths old. Will prob kill them off grass

Roundbale

Weighed our 2 year old coming out of the shed on the 15th of April and again about 3 weeks ago, 115 days I think. Our best 3 bullocks CHX with lim/sim gained on average of 1.8kgs per day on grass only. The more LM bullocks gained 1.5.

Heifers did barely over 1kg and any with a bit of AA did less, should have been fuxked off earlier. Happy enough from grass.

Reggie.

Miname wrote: »

Thank god for the fact some of you have the same issue. ive been pushing to try and get 1kg a day average. Ive 4 weanling bulls to sell shortly, onmeal for the last 3 weeks and an adg of 1.2kg and that is including 1 twin. otherwise heifers here that im fattening have an adg of .8kg. i thought 1kg was kinda the average. a lad in our disscussion group had a couple of bulls last year done 1.7 on no meal, but they were the exceptional ones.

That was great gain out of them