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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1767102" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>I am a little confused. If you usually sell the calves after weaning, then they should not have any contact that will allow them to nurse from the cows. But your option #2 states that they can be close enough to see each other but not nurse... so in reality the calves are not weaned yet. Weaning means the calves are separated from the cows, CAN NOT SUCK, so the cows can dry up their milk supply and the calves are totally reliant on the feed/hay you provide for them.</p><p>Fenceline weaning is what many do. It allows the calves and cows to interact as far as "talking to each other"...but NOT to be able to nurse. </p><p>Different people do different things. It also depends a little on what age you wean them. The older the calves, the less "dependent" they are on the dams in most cases.</p><p></p><p>We will usually wean the calves when the cows get preg checked... calves being 7-9 months or thereabouts. We will keep the calves in the lot at the barn, move the cows back out to a pasture. However, we will leave a couple of cows still in there with the calves. Usually someone that is open or maybe shorter bred. This gives the calves an "adult presence" in the field and it seems to keep most everyone calmer. Teaches them to come into the barn to eat at the bunk when called, and the water is in the smaller barn lot also... </p><p> Then in a couple weeks, the cows left there will come out. Sold if that is what we are going to do with the opens, or move the shorter bred ones out to pasture somewhere... By then, there might be only the couple of calves that the momma's were still in there, that might holler for a couple days, but no one else seems upset so they seem to quit quicker. </p><p>Fenceline weaning works good IF the fences are good and the calves cannot get back in with the cows. Most of our fences are not that good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1767102, member: 25884"] I am a little confused. If you usually sell the calves after weaning, then they should not have any contact that will allow them to nurse from the cows. But your option #2 states that they can be close enough to see each other but not nurse... so in reality the calves are not weaned yet. Weaning means the calves are separated from the cows, CAN NOT SUCK, so the cows can dry up their milk supply and the calves are totally reliant on the feed/hay you provide for them. Fenceline weaning is what many do. It allows the calves and cows to interact as far as "talking to each other"...but NOT to be able to nurse. Different people do different things. It also depends a little on what age you wean them. The older the calves, the less "dependent" they are on the dams in most cases. We will usually wean the calves when the cows get preg checked... calves being 7-9 months or thereabouts. We will keep the calves in the lot at the barn, move the cows back out to a pasture. However, we will leave a couple of cows still in there with the calves. Usually someone that is open or maybe shorter bred. This gives the calves an "adult presence" in the field and it seems to keep most everyone calmer. Teaches them to come into the barn to eat at the bunk when called, and the water is in the smaller barn lot also... Then in a couple weeks, the cows left there will come out. Sold if that is what we are going to do with the opens, or move the shorter bred ones out to pasture somewhere... By then, there might be only the couple of calves that the momma's were still in there, that might holler for a couple days, but no one else seems upset so they seem to quit quicker. Fenceline weaning works good IF the fences are good and the calves cannot get back in with the cows. Most of our fences are not that good. [/QUOTE]
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