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Beef Management Tips
Livestock Update, January 2001
John Hall, Extension Animal Scientist, Beef, Virginia Tech
January Beef Management Calendar
Spring Calving Herds
- Begin to gather calving supplies
- Keep late pregnant cows gaining 1.0 lbs per day
- Pregnant heifers and 3 yr olds should gain 2.0-2.5 lbs per day
- Keep high quality minerals available
- Review calving assistance procedures
- Stockpile a few gallons of colostrum
- Attend performance tested bull sales and/or order semen for AI
- Soil test pastures not tested in last 3 yrs
- Order clover seed for frost seeding later this winter
- Register for the Virginia Beef Industry Convention and Cattlemen's College
Fall calving herds
- Begin/continue breeding
- Check cow and bull condition
- Supplement energy to young bulls during breeding season
- Send in forage test if not done earlier this year
- Continue to check calves closely for health problems
- Reimplant September and early October born calves that were implanted at birth
- Soil test pastures not tested in last 3 yrs
- Order clover seed for frost seeding later this winter
- Register for the Virginia Beef Industry Convention and Cattlemen's College
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