New energy requirements increase  14 to 15 percent and protein requirements increase 26 to 27 percent from  mid-gestation to late gestation. This  increase in nutrient requirements during this stage of gestation is due to the rapidly  increasing growth of the fetus.  The  fetus accomplishes only 25 percent of its growth during the first two-thirds of  gestation.  The remaining 75 percent of fetal  growth is attained during the last 90 days of gestation.  In fact, the developing conceptus (fetus plus  membranes and fluids) requires 100 to 150 pounds of weight gain during the last  third of gestation!

As hard as it to believe, Girl is now entering in her 3rd part of her pregancy, and suddenly last week, she has baby bump, I have decided that trying to get a photo of baby bump in a brown cow is very hard but I swear if you could see her in really life, you would be like.. WOW, look at that baby bump, even cooler is that for the first time, I felt the baby move, it didn’t kick so much as appear to do the move/wave.

On the feed end, Girl is really getting almost pushy about getting her grain rations on top of all the hay she can eat and her molassies/fat/protein, vit/mineral lick, she also seems to be using her baking soda a bit more then normal.. Amazing that she will need to gain around another hundred to hundred an fifty pds yet before she calf’s out.