Beef Management Tips - July 2007

John B. Hall, Extension Animal Scientist, Beef, Virginia Tech. Beef managment tips for July.

Beef Management Tips

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Spring Calving Herds

• Check bulls regularly for performance and injury
  
• End breeding season; pull bulls
  
• Feed 1st calf heifers separately; give them best forage and supplement
  
• Continue fly control program
  
• Continue feeding high Se trace salt
  
• Continue creep grazing
  
• Do mid summer deworming and implanting early in month
  
• Start grazing warm season grasses
  
• Move cattle to some hay fields to give pastures a rest
  

Fall Calving Herds

• Continue fly control program
• Do mid summer deworming on replacement heifers, preg heifers (2yr olds) and 3yr-old cows
• Continue high Se trace mineral salt
• Move cattle to some hay fields to give pastures a rest
• Vaccinate calves for VQA programs; line up certification
• Wean calves if selling in VQA weaned program in late August or September (weaned for 45 days)

July 2007

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