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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1620222" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>It's the right thing to do for the calf...and the next owner down the line, but I don't know that we ever got paid enough to make it economically worthwhile for us - but the next guy up the supply chain benefitted.</p><p></p><p>Calves here were vaccinated with two rounds of Clostridials at 2 & 3 months of age, bulls castrated & implanted no later than 2 months of age. We did pre-weaning vaccinations for IBR/BRSV/BVD/PI3, Pasteurella/Mannheimia, then boostered IBR/BVD/BRSV/PI3 at weaning. Calves were all bunk broke and accustomed to eating feed/hay, drinking out of a stock tank.</p><p>Calves would often lose as much as 50# in the first week following weaning - despite having free-choice hay and up to 5#/hd DDG/day. I rarely had space/resources on hand to hang onto them for much more than 2 weeks post-weaning - much less 45-60-90 days to get recovery and compensatory weight gain.</p><p> </p><p>It was hit or miss as to whether the goobers at the salebarns would even announce them as 'value-added' when they came into the sale ring - even though they were told expressly, at delivery, that they'd had two rounds of respiratory vaccines, were weaned and bunk broke. </p><p>All in all, I'd bet that calves 'weaned on the trailer' brought just about as much, and the folks bringing those in had no extra inputs - $$ or time - invested in them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1620222, member: 12607"] It's the right thing to do for the calf...and the next owner down the line, but I don't know that we ever got paid enough to make it economically worthwhile for us - but the next guy up the supply chain benefitted. Calves here were vaccinated with two rounds of Clostridials at 2 & 3 months of age, bulls castrated & implanted no later than 2 months of age. We did pre-weaning vaccinations for IBR/BRSV/BVD/PI3, Pasteurella/Mannheimia, then boostered IBR/BVD/BRSV/PI3 at weaning. Calves were all bunk broke and accustomed to eating feed/hay, drinking out of a stock tank. Calves would often lose as much as 50# in the first week following weaning - despite having free-choice hay and up to 5#/hd DDG/day. I rarely had space/resources on hand to hang onto them for much more than 2 weeks post-weaning - much less 45-60-90 days to get recovery and compensatory weight gain. It was hit or miss as to whether the goobers at the salebarns would even announce them as 'value-added' when they came into the sale ring - even though they were told expressly, at delivery, that they'd had two rounds of respiratory vaccines, were weaned and bunk broke. All in all, I'd bet that calves 'weaned on the trailer' brought just about as much, and the folks bringing those in had no extra inputs - $$ or time - invested in them. [/QUOTE]
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