. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. FEEDING AND CARE OF BEEF CATTLE 295 needed to finish cattle depends on the method of feeding followed and on the age and condition of the cattle when placed on feed. When the steers are fed roughage with only a limited allowance of concentrates, the fattening process will take considerably longer than where they are rapidly brought to full feed and then crowded with all the concentrates they wil
. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. FEEDING AND CARE OF BEEF CATTLE 295 needed to finish cattle depends on the method of feeding followed and on the age and condition of the cattle when placed on feed. When the steers are fed roughage with only a limited allowance of concentrates, the fattening process will take considerably longer than where they are rapidly brought to full feed and then crowded with all the concentrates they will eat. Obviously, much less time is re- quired to finish steers already in good flesh when started on feed than those in leaner condition. Such fleshy feeders are commonly "short- fed ;'' , fed for 90 to 100 days or less on a heavy allowance of con- centrates. Thin steers must be "long-fed;" , fed for a consider- ably longer period, during the first part of which often little or no grain is fed other than that in the Fig. 83.—Championship 3-Year-Old Steers at the International Steers of this age are continually becoming more scarce on the market, due to the fact that they produce beef less economically than younger animals. As we have already seen, the younger the steers are, the longer they must be fed to reach a given finish. "While it ordinarily re- quires 3 to 4 months to finish mature steers and 4 to 7 months for 2- year-olds, it takes 9 months or longer to fatten calves. Limiting the concentrate allowance.—To reduce the amount of grain required, cattle are often fed hay and silage during the first part of the fattening period, with but little or no concentrates, even if they are later finished on all the concentrates they will eat. Whether this system will be more profitable than bringing the cattle rapidly to a full feed of concentrates, depends on the relative cost of roughages and concentrates. In three trials at the Indiana Sta
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