By Sydney Vanderhoff, SDSU Extension
Often when thinking of grazing dormant winter range, we think of spring-calving cow herds grazing prior to calving. However, let’s switch gears and think about grazing growing calves on winter range. Due to their growth requirements, growing calves need higher-quality nutrition than cows do. As a result, growing calves will require more protein and energy supplementation when grazing winter range.
What does winter range provide?
Nutritionally, winter range is only 49% to 52% total digestible nutrients (abbreviated as TDN) with crude protein (abbreviated…
