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Beef Management Tips
Livestock Update, July 2002
John B. Hall, Extension Animal Scientist, Beef, VA Tech
July Beef Management Calendar
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
- Attend VA Cattlemenšs Summer Round Up and Conference (July 11-13)
Fall calving herds
- Continue fly control program
- Do mid summer deworming on replacement heifers and preg heifers (2yr olds)
- 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 August (weaned for 30 days)
- Attend VA Cattlemen's Summer Round Up and Conference (July 11-13)
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