pdubdo
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Got a bottle calf in our suburban back yard...not by choice! He's right at 6 weeks old. He currently eats about 1 lb of mana pro calf feed twice a day, drinks a quart of milk replacer morning and night, grazes on some wheat/oats/clover I luckily covered my garden with over-winter, and eats a little alfalfa hay we just started putting out. He's been eating on the wheat and the calf feed for about 2 weeks. At some point, we are going to throw him back with the herd to fend for himself. I was ideally going to wait till 12 weeks and vaccinate him just prior. But his mooing is getting louder...Once he's with the herd, he's really on his own-we aren't set up to check our cows more than twice a week. Any advice on how early we can put him back with the herd? Should I wait till 10-12 weeks and just apologize to the neighbors and hide from the HOA??...