Daryl Strohbehn
Daryl Strohbehn
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As calves get heavier, there will likely be a price slide. That last 50 pounds you put on the calf, normally, is not as valuable as the first 500 pounds. If you add 40 to 50 pounds with creep feeding, what you pay for feed and what you'll receive for the heavier calf may not always favor creep feeding.
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If you want to select a bull in the top 10 or 25 percent in the breed for a specific trait, those percentile tables will give you a benchmark number to compare bulls to in order to find out if a bull has the desirable genetics for a specific trait.
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Two nice improvements to feeders have been an increase in general size and the addition of wheels for easier mobility.