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Only 64 days left till he's weaned.
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<blockquote data-quote="sim.-ang.king" data-source="post: 1568166" data-attributes="member: 14533"><p>What you can do and what you should do are two different things. </p><p>After 6 months of age the amount of weight gain the calf is getting from the cow is minimal compared to what they are getting from feed, and forage intake. Which in turns inflates ADG on cow, and lowers the true accuracy of Adj.WWs. Yes, they adjust for feed supplement, but it's a broad adjustment that doesn't account for the calf getting fed 12 pounds of feed per day. Be the same as weaning a calf at 4 months, feeding him for 2 and then weighing him for 205. Kind of screws with the legitimacy of the weights. </p><p>A lot of operations do it, and a lot of them also like to put calves on nurse cows, and creep feed from the start, but that doesn't make it legit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sim.-ang.king, post: 1568166, member: 14533"] What you can do and what you should do are two different things. After 6 months of age the amount of weight gain the calf is getting from the cow is minimal compared to what they are getting from feed, and forage intake. Which in turns inflates ADG on cow, and lowers the true accuracy of Adj.WWs. Yes, they adjust for feed supplement, but it's a broad adjustment that doesn't account for the calf getting fed 12 pounds of feed per day. Be the same as weaning a calf at 4 months, feeding him for 2 and then weighing him for 205. Kind of screws with the legitimacy of the weights. A lot of operations do it, and a lot of them also like to put calves on nurse cows, and creep feed from the start, but that doesn't make it legit. [/QUOTE]
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