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<blockquote data-quote="bird dog" data-source="post: 1280402" data-attributes="member: 5381"><p>Sure your trailer weaned calves will do good and maybe ring the bell but how much shrink did you incur by going this route. In my experience if you start them on creep a couple weeks before weaning, and continue a couple weeks after weaning, they will regain all their weight that weaning takes off of them and will add some weight to boot. Your shrink then will be in the 2 to 4% range instead of 6 to 8% that your unweaned calves will suffer. On 600 lb calves that can be a 50 lb difference in your favor and you are sending a much better calf to market. If you are sending calves to a sale where they feed them something like at OKC your shrink will be almost nothing if they are used to eating.</p><p> TexasPawPaw even gets his to gain some but mine usually shrink about 1 to 1 1/2 % at OKC.</p><p> </p><p>I feed them all they want while fence line weaning and then feed them every couple days for the next two to three weeks and give them some good grass pasture or hay. It costs me about $25 a head. </p><p>These buyers around here can easily tell a group of weaned calves and will pay up accordingly especially this time of year when calves get sick easily.</p><p> </p><p>I have mentioned before that I weigh just about everything coming in and going out. I very rarely sell anything that hasn't been weaned at least a couple weeks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bird dog, post: 1280402, member: 5381"] Sure your trailer weaned calves will do good and maybe ring the bell but how much shrink did you incur by going this route. In my experience if you start them on creep a couple weeks before weaning, and continue a couple weeks after weaning, they will regain all their weight that weaning takes off of them and will add some weight to boot. Your shrink then will be in the 2 to 4% range instead of 6 to 8% that your unweaned calves will suffer. On 600 lb calves that can be a 50 lb difference in your favor and you are sending a much better calf to market. If you are sending calves to a sale where they feed them something like at OKC your shrink will be almost nothing if they are used to eating. TexasPawPaw even gets his to gain some but mine usually shrink about 1 to 1 1/2 % at OKC. I feed them all they want while fence line weaning and then feed them every couple days for the next two to three weeks and give them some good grass pasture or hay. It costs me about $25 a head. These buyers around here can easily tell a group of weaned calves and will pay up accordingly especially this time of year when calves get sick easily. I have mentioned before that I weigh just about everything coming in and going out. I very rarely sell anything that hasn't been weaned at least a couple weeks. [/QUOTE]
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