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2 week old calf Self weaning
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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1760036" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>I always tried to get steer bottle calves weaned by 4 weeks, 6 weeks max. Heifers... I'd bottle them on out to 8 weeks, if need be. I'd cram a handful of calf starter in their mouth at each feeding and any time I happened to be passing by. Once they were eating 1.5 lbs a day, I cut the bottle off and rapidly bumped them up to about 5 pounds a day, and started letting them graze or have access to good quality hay at about 8 weeks, in addition to their starter/grower ration. </p><p>2 weeks is pretty young, and I'd probably keep on trying him on the bottle, but if he'll eat enough of a good quality grain/SBM-based ration, he can do OK. Plenty of digestible nutrients in a grain ration... hay/grass - not so much; the grain in those starter/grower rations does a much better job of pushing rumen development than does early forage/roughage ingestion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1760036, member: 12607"] I always tried to get steer bottle calves weaned by 4 weeks, 6 weeks max. Heifers... I'd bottle them on out to 8 weeks, if need be. I'd cram a handful of calf starter in their mouth at each feeding and any time I happened to be passing by. Once they were eating 1.5 lbs a day, I cut the bottle off and rapidly bumped them up to about 5 pounds a day, and started letting them graze or have access to good quality hay at about 8 weeks, in addition to their starter/grower ration. 2 weeks is pretty young, and I'd probably keep on trying him on the bottle, but if he'll eat enough of a good quality grain/SBM-based ration, he can do OK. Plenty of digestible nutrients in a grain ration... hay/grass - not so much; the grain in those starter/grower rations does a much better job of pushing rumen development than does early forage/roughage ingestion. [/QUOTE]
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