Calf Weight?

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Catch the critter, break out the bathroom scale (if it reads high enough) Lift up the calf and weigh both of you and then subtract your weight. Make sure to put the scale on a solid surface. A piece of plywood works just fine.
 
I've used the hanging type scales but the bathroom scale sounds like it would be much easier. I've weighed my dogs that way (bathroom scale) when worming them just never thought of doing it that way with a calf. I haven't been to concerned with birth weights for sometime now since I haven't been around registered herds in the past few years.
 
We have a hanging scale and a sling we got from Valley Vet. Have a steel t on one end and and L on the other. Fits into the receiver on the truck hitch. Works like a charm.
 

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