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<blockquote data-quote="DiamondSCattleCo" data-source="post: 220750" data-attributes="member: 2862"><p>I'm probably not a good one to talk about feeding Holsteins, as I don't seem to have any success doing it. I used to buy a few steers every year from the dairy, and use milk replacer on them then switch them over to grain and forage, but I get poor gains. I always just thought it was the local dairy's breedstock not being up to snuff.</p><p></p><p>Do your early weaned calves get a little gutty? If so, what I do is knock the grain way back to just a taste, and feed them a low protein grass hay. I don't know if it'll work on Holsteins or not, but when I get a Shortie calf that starts gutting up a bit, I toss it into a separate pen all its own with grass hay. It seems to allow the bone structure to catch up, they stretch back out again, and in about a month, maybe two, they're ready to go back on a standard ration. It hurts ADG of course, but if you let them stay gutty, they just quit growing.</p><p></p><p>Rod</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DiamondSCattleCo, post: 220750, member: 2862"] I'm probably not a good one to talk about feeding Holsteins, as I don't seem to have any success doing it. I used to buy a few steers every year from the dairy, and use milk replacer on them then switch them over to grain and forage, but I get poor gains. I always just thought it was the local dairy's breedstock not being up to snuff. Do your early weaned calves get a little gutty? If so, what I do is knock the grain way back to just a taste, and feed them a low protein grass hay. I don't know if it'll work on Holsteins or not, but when I get a Shortie calf that starts gutting up a bit, I toss it into a separate pen all its own with grass hay. It seems to allow the bone structure to catch up, they stretch back out again, and in about a month, maybe two, they're ready to go back on a standard ration. It hurts ADG of course, but if you let them stay gutty, they just quit growing. Rod [/QUOTE]
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