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<blockquote data-quote="KNERSIE" data-source="post: 762075" data-attributes="member: 4353"><p>Alan, my breeding season is 66 days long, I wean all my registered calves on the same day. I try not to wean before 7 months old meaning the older calves are closer to 9 months old when I wean them physically. I've been forced to play around with weaning age because of drought when I had two calving seasons and came to the conclusion that early weaning requires expensive inputs in my environment where the feed quality is low at best and the supply is very unreliable therefore I need to utelise whatever cheap gain I can get. For me there is no cheaper gain than the cow's milk.</p><p></p><p>The official weaning weight get taken at the optimum time according to a computer programme provided by our Logix system. I take all the weights on the same day to make the contemporary group larger. This neccesarily means some calves are 6 months old and others are 8 months old, but the vast majority will be around 205 days old.</p><p></p><p>If your cows are still in good condition there is no harm done by leaving the calves on them for longer, especially if you have the type of cows that tend to get overconditioned when idle. I believe that an 8 month old calf has much less of a setback at weaning as opposed to a 6 month old calf.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KNERSIE, post: 762075, member: 4353"] Alan, my breeding season is 66 days long, I wean all my registered calves on the same day. I try not to wean before 7 months old meaning the older calves are closer to 9 months old when I wean them physically. I've been forced to play around with weaning age because of drought when I had two calving seasons and came to the conclusion that early weaning requires expensive inputs in my environment where the feed quality is low at best and the supply is very unreliable therefore I need to utelise whatever cheap gain I can get. For me there is no cheaper gain than the cow's milk. The official weaning weight get taken at the optimum time according to a computer programme provided by our Logix system. I take all the weights on the same day to make the contemporary group larger. This neccesarily means some calves are 6 months old and others are 8 months old, but the vast majority will be around 205 days old. If your cows are still in good condition there is no harm done by leaving the calves on them for longer, especially if you have the type of cows that tend to get overconditioned when idle. I believe that an 8 month old calf has much less of a setback at weaning as opposed to a 6 month old calf. [/QUOTE]
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