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Backgrounding is an intermediate stage sometimes used in cattle production which begins after weaning and ends upon placement in a feedlot.Background feeding relies more heavily on forage (e.g., pasture, hay) in combination with grains to increase a calf's weight by several hundred pounds and to build up immunity to diseases before putting them in a feedlot in preparation for slaughter.
[3] [2] Backgrounding operations will typically purchase 300–600 pounds (140–270 kg) feeder cattle calves and feed to grow the animals into 650–875 pounds (295–397 kg) backgrounded cattle. Backgrounding cattle that achieve weights of 650–700 pounds (290–320 kg) are suitable for sale to grass feeding operations, whereas those ...
Feeder cattle or store cattle are young cattle soon to be either backgrounded or sent to fattening, most especially those intended to be sold to someone else for finishing before butchering. In some regions, a distinction between stockers and feeders (by those names) is the distinction of backgrounding versus immediate sale to a finisher.
Beef cattle are cattle raised for meat production (as distinguished from dairy cattle, used for milk production). The meat of mature or almost mature cattle is mostly known as beef. In beef production there are three main stages: cow-calf operations, backgrounding, and feedlot operations. The production cycle of the animals starts at cow-calf ...
Federickson with his cattle. A lot of farmland “is valued above its productive capacity, even with a conservation easement,” Frederickson said. Crystie Kisler, 54, ...
North Dakota State University (NDSU, formally North Dakota State University of Agriculture and Applied Sciences) is a public land-grant research university in Fargo, North Dakota, United States. It was founded as North Dakota Agricultural College in 1890 as the state's land-grant university .
The Buelingo derives from a small herd of fourteen cows of mostly Shorthorn type owned by Russ Bueling in the early 1970s. A dairy-type Dutch Belted bull was used on these to introduce the gene for belting (this was purely for appearance), [1]: 68 and then a Chianina bull was used to increase size and improve beef qualities.
Grazing hobbles for horses and cattle hobbles (bottom) A muster (Au/NZ) or a roundup (US/Ca) is the process of gathering livestock . Musters usually involve cattle , sheep or horses , but may also include goats , camels , buffalo or other animals.