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<blockquote data-quote="Bigfoot" data-source="post: 1409694" data-attributes="member: 17956"><p>Beside shots, dehorning, and castrating, how do different people here settle down their feeder calves they buy?</p><p></p><p>1. I put them in my trap first. Nothing can get out of it. It's attached to a 40' X 36' enclosed pole barn. I think the small area, and soon finding out there is no escape cuts out all the walking. Standing and bawling is hard enough on them.</p><p>2. Square bales of sudex hay the first 48 hours, no feed. IMHO, that cuts out a lot of the loose stools.</p><p>3. Mineral, a bunch of them have never had a bite.</p><p>4. After a week, they are released in to 3/4 acre woven wire lot with hot wire on top, and standing out from the wire.</p><p>5. When I know the walking and bawling is over, and they are routinely showing up at the feed trough, I will turn them out behind barbed wire. I only do a few a day, until the group is out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bigfoot, post: 1409694, member: 17956"] Beside shots, dehorning, and castrating, how do different people here settle down their feeder calves they buy? 1. I put them in my trap first. Nothing can get out of it. It's attached to a 40' X 36' enclosed pole barn. I think the small area, and soon finding out there is no escape cuts out all the walking. Standing and bawling is hard enough on them. 2. Square bales of sudex hay the first 48 hours, no feed. IMHO, that cuts out a lot of the loose stools. 3. Mineral, a bunch of them have never had a bite. 4. After a week, they are released in to 3/4 acre woven wire lot with hot wire on top, and standing out from the wire. 5. When I know the walking and bawling is over, and they are routinely showing up at the feed trough, I will turn them out behind barbed wire. I only do a few a day, until the group is out. [/QUOTE]
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