Winter beef cattle tips

Liz Bauer The nutritionists and consultants at Great Plains Livestock Consulting Inc., Eagle, Neb., offer these timely reminders for beef cattle during this winter season:

• Clean manure out of pens.
• Make sure feed is analyzed and rations are in place.
• Now is a good time to stretegically deworm cows after we have had a good freeze.
• Make sure you pregnancy test all cows and cull open famles in order to save feed resources.
• Sort cows by body condition adn feed groups accordingly in order to get thin cows back into better shape before spring calving.
• Evaluate bulls and begin to make bull buying decisions for next year.

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