Show best marketing Marlc eting weight of baby beef animal the average baby beef calf that has been well fed with the expectation ot of marketing it as baby beef should weigh from COO to 75 30 pounds at nine months old one can hardly expect such buch a calf at that age to sell as well however as a finished baby beef an luidl such calves will hardly be large enough and usually not fat at enough the best baby beef comes from calves marketed at fourteen to eighteen months old weighing to pounds A considerable variety of feeds can be used in feeding baby beet beef calves IA good eod grain ration may be composed jot f shelled corn ground ear corn or a r 11 nurture of shelled corn or ground corn 70 per cent and oats 30 per cent tr barley could be used as the prin cepal grain in any case about 10 per cent of a good protein supplement feed such as linseed meal cottons cottonseed eed ameal meal or gluten feed should be added to 10 the grain ration alfalfa or clover hay Is the best lind kind of hay bay to use A little silo ge can be fed and the tha calves can be turned out on pasture IBS Es soon as the grass Is suitable |