Weaned today
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Oh yah, still isJogeephus":132ltp97 said:Was it noisy last night? :lol2:
Correct. Step in posts and a single strand of poly wire. When the cows settle down in a couple of days or so, they'll be moved out of the pasture and the calves will have that side of the fence too.SRBeef":3bhr9j1t said:Great picture. Thanks.
What sort of fence is the white one between them? Looks like just a single electric wire?
Jim
dun":39hv2zsz said:Correct. Step in posts and a single strand of poly wire. When the cows settle down in a couple of days or so, they'll be moved out of the pasture and the calves will have that side of the fence too.SRBeef":39hv2zsz said:Great picture. Thanks.
What sort of fence is the white one between them? Looks like just a single electric wire?
Jim
It's pretty much just 2 cows raising cain. The others are used to the drill and are probably glad to be rid of them. The 2 noisiest ones are a heifer and a cow on her 5th calf. She's always been noisy at weaning time. The others occasioanlly get started but it's usually just those 2. The calves have hardly made any noise at all but they like having mom right next door.
KNERSIE":puej0qtd said:dun":puej0qtd said:Correct. Step in posts and a single strand of poly wire. When the cows settle down in a couple of days or so, they'll be moved out of the pasture and the calves will have that side of the fence too.SRBeef":puej0qtd said:Great picture. Thanks.
What sort of fence is the white one between them? Looks like just a single electric wire?
Jim
It's pretty much just 2 cows raising cain. The others are used to the drill and are probably glad to be rid of them. The 2 noisiest ones are a heifer and a cow on her 5th calf. She's always been noisy at weaning time. The others occasioanlly get started but it's usually just those 2. The calves have hardly made any noise at all but they like having mom right next door.
Do you creep feed prior to weaning?
We've had a couple over the years but not more then one every 4-5 years. Those are the ones that go to the salebarn rather then the backgrounderKNERSIE":2c5luba7 said:Do you ever get calves that just don't take to the grain? I have a bottle calf now that is almost 3 months old and still doesn't eat enough grain to wean. He is eating lots of grass and loves alfalfa hay, but just don't seem to like grain.
dun":2kynzmo6 said:Correct. Step in posts and a single strand of poly wire. When the cows settle down in a couple of days or so, they'll be moved out of the pasture and the calves will have that side of the fence too.SRBeef":2kynzmo6 said:Great picture. Thanks.
What sort of fence is the white one between them? Looks like just a single electric wire?
Jim
It's pretty much just 2 cows raising cain. The others are used to the drill and are probably glad to be rid of them. The 2 noisiest ones are a heifer and a cow on her 5th calf. She's always been noisy at weaning time. The others occasioanlly get started but it's usually just those 2. The calves have hardly made any noise at all but they like having mom right next door.
KNERSIE":2my87obp said:Do you ever get calves that just don't take to the grain? I have a bottle calf now that is almost 3 months old and still doesn't eat enough grain to wean. He is eating lots of grass and loves alfalfa hay, but just don't seem to like grain.
Does the grain have a lot of CG in it. I've found that more then a third CG and they're all pretty picky. They'll eat it bit not with gusto like I would expectcfpinz":3do52u9q said:KNERSIE":3do52u9q said:Do you ever get calves that just don't take to the grain? I have a bottle calf now that is almost 3 months old and still doesn't eat enough grain to wean. He is eating lots of grass and loves alfalfa hay, but just don't seem to like grain.
We had a heifer calf that was picked out for a replacement last year, when we penned/weaned them she wouldn't touch grain. She held her condition as well as the others so I kept her. We grain the heifers around 2lbs/day for about a month to 6 weeks. After that they go out on stockpile all winter, no supplement other than a 5 gal bucket once a week. Still got her, she'll come running up to the bucket when I check them and smell the grain but she won't eat it. Oh well.
dun":cwtl0ffc said:Does the grain have a lot of CG in it. I've found that more then a third CG and they're all pretty picky. They'll eat it bit not with gusto like I would expect
We had one old cow that wouldn;t eat grain. She would stick her nose next to it for a couple of seconds then wander off. We still have a daughter of her that we call Hoover. She'll vacuum up every bit of any kind of feed and lick and polish the feeder when everyone else is donecfpinz":13qgdatj said:dun":13qgdatj said:Does the grain have a lot of CG in it. I've found that more then a third CG and they're all pretty picky. They'll eat it bit not with gusto like I would expect
No, not really. We use heifer stocker pellets, they're the most economical for my purpose. Even bought a bag of steer fattener to try and get her interest up but she doesn't care for it. Every now and then I'll give them some range cubes and she'll pick at one or two but that's it. Way I see it, she's a money saver.
I've got one that is noisy all the time. Guess I've gotten used to it now cause I don't notice it like I used to or something. Sort of reminded me of my older sister every time you went to the pasture she'd come up a bellering about something. :lol:dun":1nx6tti9 said:Correct. Step in posts and a single strand of poly wire. When the cows settle down in a couple of days or so, they'll be moved out of the pasture and the calves will have that side of the fence too.SRBeef":1nx6tti9 said:Great picture. Thanks.
What sort of fence is the white one between them? Looks like just a single electric wire?
Jim
It's pretty much just 2 cows raising cain. The others are used to the drill and are probably glad to be rid of them. The 2 noisiest ones are a heifer and a cow on her 5th calf. She's always been noisy at weaning time. The others occasioanlly get started but it's usually just those 2. The calves have hardly made any noise at all but they like having mom right next door.
1982vett":1wkx6xe1 said:I've got one that is noisy all the time. Guess I've gotten used to it now cause I don't notice it like I used to or something. Sort of reminded me of my older sister every time you went to the pasture she'd come up a bellering about something. :lol:dun":1wkx6xe1 said:Correct. Step in posts and a single strand of poly wire. When the cows settle down in a couple of days or so, they'll be moved out of the pasture and the calves will have that side of the fence too.SRBeef":1wkx6xe1 said:Great picture. Thanks.
What sort of fence is the white one between them? Looks like just a single electric wire?
Jim
It's pretty much just 2 cows raising cain. The others are used to the drill and are probably glad to be rid of them. The 2 noisiest ones are a heifer and a cow on her 5th calf. She's always been noisy at weaning time. The others occasioanlly get started but it's usually just those 2. The calves have hardly made any noise at all but they like having mom right next door.
I don't know why, but my sister didn't find anything amusing about this.