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<blockquote data-quote="donnaIL" data-source="post: 370594" data-attributes="member: 37"><p>The ones on our cows haven't ever eaten grain that early (course I don't buy starter for them either), guess my post was not that clear. </p><p></p><p>We give our cows a little grain each day, and after thinking about trying to teach these 2 week old calves to eat it, I cannot recall any of our calves (on the cows)being interested in grain at that early of an age. They munch on hay and grass at a couple weeks. I should keep better notes (the memory isn't as good as it use to be). Seems we start giving the calves a little sweet feed at a few months old, after they start coming up with the cows and licking the bowl & showing interest.</p><p></p><p>Since I never had to bottle feed before, this is all new to me. I just wanted to post that these twin calves I have were not eager to eat grain (the rolled corn,oats,barley)or purina calf starter..and that they started at 1 gallon of milk replacer a day and have slowly increased to 2 gallons a day. And I am happy they are eating because the sooner they do the sooner I can wean them. </p><p></p><p>They are good sized calves..I would guess at birth the heifer weighed 65lbs and the bull 75lbs.(maybe bigger).They have grown good.. Here's a picture on Easter...They were not yet 2 weeks old. Donna</p><p></p><p><img src="http://cattletoday.com/photos/data/500/medium/everyone_1_.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donnaIL, post: 370594, member: 37"] The ones on our cows haven't ever eaten grain that early (course I don't buy starter for them either), guess my post was not that clear. We give our cows a little grain each day, and after thinking about trying to teach these 2 week old calves to eat it, I cannot recall any of our calves (on the cows)being interested in grain at that early of an age. They munch on hay and grass at a couple weeks. I should keep better notes (the memory isn't as good as it use to be). Seems we start giving the calves a little sweet feed at a few months old, after they start coming up with the cows and licking the bowl & showing interest. Since I never had to bottle feed before, this is all new to me. I just wanted to post that these twin calves I have were not eager to eat grain (the rolled corn,oats,barley)or purina calf starter..and that they started at 1 gallon of milk replacer a day and have slowly increased to 2 gallons a day. And I am happy they are eating because the sooner they do the sooner I can wean them. They are good sized calves..I would guess at birth the heifer weighed 65lbs and the bull 75lbs.(maybe bigger).They have grown good.. Here's a picture on Easter...They were not yet 2 weeks old. Donna [img]http://cattletoday.com/photos/data/500/medium/everyone_1_.JPG[/img] [/QUOTE]
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