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<blockquote data-quote="bird dog" data-source="post: 1727235" data-attributes="member: 5381"><p>I implant all my calves at first work and all of then again at weaning except the heifers I am retaining. I have kept a few heifers that were implanted twice and they didn't seem to have any issues. The bred on time and calved normally. </p><p></p><p>As I have mentioned before, I am not willing to spend a bunch of money trying to put on weight on weaned calves. Implants are cheap and easy. My goal is to get them ready to go to a sale that will pay a little extra for long weaned healthy calves that are not to full. I want them eating enough to put on a few pounds but also eating well enough to eat what they feed at the yard and try to minimize my shrink. If I have good grass, the calves will gain about 1 1/2 lbs a day and it pays to keep them as long as you can. They really put on some weight after 45 days. In the late fall and winter, they will only gain about a pound a day on hay and 1% of there body weight of creep fed every other day. At this time of the year it doesn't pay for me to keep them much longer than 40 days. I try to have some oats for them and then my gains will go up, but this year it has been too dry and the oats has not grown enough to do any good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bird dog, post: 1727235, member: 5381"] I implant all my calves at first work and all of then again at weaning except the heifers I am retaining. I have kept a few heifers that were implanted twice and they didn't seem to have any issues. The bred on time and calved normally. As I have mentioned before, I am not willing to spend a bunch of money trying to put on weight on weaned calves. Implants are cheap and easy. My goal is to get them ready to go to a sale that will pay a little extra for long weaned healthy calves that are not to full. I want them eating enough to put on a few pounds but also eating well enough to eat what they feed at the yard and try to minimize my shrink. If I have good grass, the calves will gain about 1 1/2 lbs a day and it pays to keep them as long as you can. They really put on some weight after 45 days. In the late fall and winter, they will only gain about a pound a day on hay and 1% of there body weight of creep fed every other day. At this time of the year it doesn't pay for me to keep them much longer than 40 days. I try to have some oats for them and then my gains will go up, but this year it has been too dry and the oats has not grown enough to do any good. [/QUOTE]
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