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<blockquote data-quote="randiliana" data-source="post: 749542" data-attributes="member: 2308"><p>We fed 5 of the little suckers a couple years ago. Feed the best quality milk replacer you can find, and an ALL MILK one at that. High protien is a big thing with babies. Then when they are a few days old start them on a good quality baby calf ration. Again, mind your protien levels, you want to find something in the 20% range. Once they are 8-12 weeks, and eating at least 2 lbs (preferalby more) of calf starter per day you can wean them. Then just keep them on the calf starter, the more they eat the better until about 5-6 months.You can give them a little free choice hay to nibble on, but not a lot. Until they are in the 4 month range their rumen really isn't developed enough to get much nutrition out of hay. As far as size, we raised one that was 450 lbs on this regime. And she wasn't pot bellied either. So I wouldn't say that she grew as well as most of our calves on the cow, but she wasn't a runty little thing either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="randiliana, post: 749542, member: 2308"] We fed 5 of the little suckers a couple years ago. Feed the best quality milk replacer you can find, and an ALL MILK one at that. High protien is a big thing with babies. Then when they are a few days old start them on a good quality baby calf ration. Again, mind your protien levels, you want to find something in the 20% range. Once they are 8-12 weeks, and eating at least 2 lbs (preferalby more) of calf starter per day you can wean them. Then just keep them on the calf starter, the more they eat the better until about 5-6 months.You can give them a little free choice hay to nibble on, but not a lot. Until they are in the 4 month range their rumen really isn't developed enough to get much nutrition out of hay. As far as size, we raised one that was 450 lbs on this regime. And she wasn't pot bellied either. So I wouldn't say that she grew as well as most of our calves on the cow, but she wasn't a runty little thing either. [/QUOTE]
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