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<blockquote data-quote="TheBullLady" data-source="post: 28564" data-attributes="member: 173"><p>It depends on what you have planned for the calves. If they're going to market, it's more cost effective to wean them as soon as they'll eat grain and hay. If you're raising replacements, and money is no object, you can up the milk replacer. </p><p></p><p>We've got two bottle calves that were on all the milk replacer ( at their peak, they could down 3 - 6 pint bottles at a sitting) they could eat twice or three times a day. The first heifer pretty much weaned herself at about 11 weeks. She won third place at the Fort Worth stock show. The other heifer we weaned slowly by cutting down the volume of milk, and getting her to eat grain out of a bucket when the bottle was finished. Either of the two are as good as any heifer we've got on a cow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheBullLady, post: 28564, member: 173"] It depends on what you have planned for the calves. If they're going to market, it's more cost effective to wean them as soon as they'll eat grain and hay. If you're raising replacements, and money is no object, you can up the milk replacer. We've got two bottle calves that were on all the milk replacer ( at their peak, they could down 3 - 6 pint bottles at a sitting) they could eat twice or three times a day. The first heifer pretty much weaned herself at about 11 weeks. She won third place at the Fort Worth stock show. The other heifer we weaned slowly by cutting down the volume of milk, and getting her to eat grain out of a bucket when the bottle was finished. Either of the two are as good as any heifer we've got on a cow. [/QUOTE]
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