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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 846597" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>Well, I'm in NZ, and yes, I've done it. I bought and raised 53 dairy calves on milk powder in 2004 and 51 in 2005 and that was how I started my herd.</p><p></p><p>Raising calves born to my own herd on whole milk is easier. I've got 3 ten- or twelve-teat feeders that I hang from the back of a tractor to feed them outside. A lot of farmers instead use a bike-towed trailer, and there must be half a dozen different designs of containers on skids or 44-gallon drums with holes drilled for the teats still in use or abandoned behind sheds on NZ farms.</p><p>The old ones tend to use tubes leading from the teat to the bottom of the container. The modern ones gravity feed to the teat.</p><p></p><p>A good manager will raise a good calf regardless of the system. That's all I'm saying - you don't have to be good to mob-feed calves, you'll just get a better result if you observe everything and do things right.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 846597, member: 9267"] Well, I'm in NZ, and yes, I've done it. I bought and raised 53 dairy calves on milk powder in 2004 and 51 in 2005 and that was how I started my herd. Raising calves born to my own herd on whole milk is easier. I've got 3 ten- or twelve-teat feeders that I hang from the back of a tractor to feed them outside. A lot of farmers instead use a bike-towed trailer, and there must be half a dozen different designs of containers on skids or 44-gallon drums with holes drilled for the teats still in use or abandoned behind sheds on NZ farms. The old ones tend to use tubes leading from the teat to the bottom of the container. The modern ones gravity feed to the teat. A good manager will raise a good calf regardless of the system. That's all I'm saying - you don't have to be good to mob-feed calves, you'll just get a better result if you observe everything and do things right. [/QUOTE]
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