Beef Management Tips - June 2007
John B. Hall, Extension Animal Scientist, Beef, Virginia Tech. Beef managment tips for June.
31 May 2007
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Beef Management Tips |
June Beef Management Calendar
Spring Calving Herds- Finish AI; turnout cleanup bulls
- Check bulls regularly for performance and injury
- Feed 1st calf heifers separately; give them best forage and supplement
- Use 48 hour calf removal for thin cows and 1st calf heifers at beginning of breeding season
- Begin fly control program
- Begin creep grazing
- Continue feeding high magnesium minerals to prevent grass tetany; may be able to switch to high Se trace salt late in month
- Do mid summer deworming and implanting late in month or early next month
- Finish making first cutting hay early in month
- Start grazing warm season grasses
- Body condition score cows; plan nutrition/grazing program based on BCS
- Begin fly control program
- Do mid summer deworming on replacement heifers and preg heifers (2yr olds)
- Plan marketing program for calves
- Vaccinate calves for VQA programs; line up certification
- Wean calves if selling in VQA weaned program in August (weaned for 45 days)
- Switch to high Se trace mineral salt
- Start grazing warm season grasses
