June Beef Management Calendar
Spring Calving Herds
- Finish AI; turn out clean-up bulls
- Check bulls regularly for performance and injury
- Manage first-calf heifers separately; give them best forage and supplement
- Use 48 hour calf removal for thin cows and first-calf heifers at beginning of breeding season
- Continue feeding high magnesium minerals to prevent grass tetany; may be able to switch to high Se
- Administer mid summer deworming, and implant calves late in month or early next month
- Complete harvest of first cutting hay early in month
- Start grazing warm season grasses
Fall Calving Herds
- Body condition score cows; plan nutrition and grazing program based on BCS
- Administer mid summer deworming on replacement heifers and pregnant heifers
- Plan marketing program for calves
- Finalize calf crop marketing program
- Vaccinate, wean, and certify calves to be marketed in late summer
- Switch to high selenium trace mineral salt
- Start grazing warm season grasses
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Virginia Cooperative Extension materials are available for public use, re-print, or citation without further permission, provided the use includes credit to the author and to Virginia Cooperative Extension, Virginia Tech, and Virginia State University.
Publisher
Issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension work, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia State University, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture cooperating. Rick D. Rudd, Interim Director, Virginia Cooperative Extension, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg; Wondi Mersie, Interim Administrator, 1890 Extension Program, Virginia State, Petersburg.
Date
June 1, 2009