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  1. Red Boots Farm

    Too much calf starter?

    None of our calves have eaten quite like this one! It's like having another teenager around.
  2. Red Boots Farm

    Too much calf starter?

    Thanks, great idea! We've only had Holstein x beef bottle calves so far -- we get them from a very reputable dairy south of us. Some 4-H kids lease them as club calves to get experience, then we sell the freezer beef. It's worked out well for us, but next year will be our first trial with a...
  3. Red Boots Farm

    Too much calf starter?

    Wow that IS a nice big calf!! Yes, ours has started eating some hay too. He has been watching the goats in the next stall eat their hay -- he's not big enough to be with the yearlings and learn from them. We have started all our calves on goat milk, then we phase over to milk replacer. They have...
  4. Red Boots Farm

    Too much calf starter?

    Thanks in advance to any seasoned bottle-calf veterans. This is our 6th bottle calf over the past couple of years. We obtained a large Holstein/Char. cross calf (150 lb. birthweight) that is now 18 days old. He is a very vigorous and a big feeder and loved the calf starter from the get-go (about...
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