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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1469790" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>From Day One, I always kept fresh, palatable calf starter ration out for the bottle calves... and changed it every few days, if they weren't consuming it. But... after every bottle feeding, and any/every time I happened to pass by the pen or hutch, I'd cram handfuls of calf starter into the calves' mouth so they could get a taste of it. </p><p>As SoB said, once they're eating 1.5#/day, you can stop the bottle and bump up the grain ration pretty rapidly. I could usually wean calves by 4-6 weeks... never had one take longer than 6 weeks, though I'd usually feed heifers a bottle on out to 8 weeks. Had plenty of steers that didn't get a bottle for longer than a month.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1469790, member: 12607"] From Day One, I always kept fresh, palatable calf starter ration out for the bottle calves... and changed it every few days, if they weren't consuming it. But... after every bottle feeding, and any/every time I happened to pass by the pen or hutch, I'd cram handfuls of calf starter into the calves' mouth so they could get a taste of it. As SoB said, once they're eating 1.5#/day, you can stop the bottle and bump up the grain ration pretty rapidly. I could usually wean calves by 4-6 weeks... never had one take longer than 6 weeks, though I'd usually feed heifers a bottle on out to 8 weeks. Had plenty of steers that didn't get a bottle for longer than a month. [/QUOTE]
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