Recent content by jruppe89

That makes sense, unfortunately there is no other calves that are broke to a cooked tub. I can almost guarantee there has never been a protein tub of any kind on this farm before I bought one for my babies. My father-in-law sticks to strictly grass and hay, then whatever he feeds his slaughter...

I definitely tried to limit hay intake, but my FIL just moved the herd for the winter to the pasture my babies are in and has put 3 hay rings in there for the rest of the herd. I hate to lock them up but I may have to for at least a few hours a day at this point to keep them off so much hay. I...

These are the only recent side views I have of them.

To me they look like they have gained, but a lot is in the belly. I couldn’t tell you their actual weight. In every other aspect they seem healthy, just slowing down this time of year like the rest of the herd and gorging themselves on hay🤦🏼‍♀️

See from the side they don’t look that bad lol. It’s when I’m looking from the front, they look like they should have wide load slapped on their hindquarters 😂

No just Angus…as far as I know! I mean they could have dairy in them, some of our angus have that look. But they do chew cud.

Well I bought a protein tub probably well over a month ago now…they have no interest in it. They licked on it the first day or so and just never looked at it again. It was the cooked tub so definitely stiff as a board, that may be the problem 🤷🏼‍♀️. So I started them on a grower feed, one that I...

Is there a good protein tub you recommend? I currently am feeding them the Calf Manna which has 25% crude protein and have loose mineral out for them along with them access to pasture and clean water. They definitely are smaller then our other calves but I expected as much being bottle calves.

I’m new to this raising bottle calves. What is a protein tub or liquid feed? I won’t be selling them, they will grow old here and they will raise their babies for profit or beef.

Ah ok! Thank you🙂