weaning - just curious

[SPRINGER FARMS MURRAY GRE]

What is the youngest calf you have weaned ?, and how did they do?

 

[certherfbeef]

I was just forced to wean 6 one month herefords. I have them on grain and I mix power replacer in with it. They are eating real good right now. We'll see what happens. I have weaned 4 month old simmyXherf calves with no problems.

 

[TheBullLady]

4 months was the youngest we've weaned. Didn't do too badly.. didn't have the growth the calves on cows had, but sold well anyway.

 

[txshowmom]

3 months and they did fine. Started out smaller but by the time they calved there was no difference in size for the ones weaned a 6 months. We are starting to wean everything at about 5 months. Seem like the mature a little quicker.

 

[TLCfromARK]

About 4 months, ended up a little smaller than the 6 - 7 month old calves that were penned with it.

;-)

 

[Running Arrow Bill]

Wean too young, affects growth rate. Besides, makes a LOT of work for you (the human) to TLC for the baby calf.

We wean at 205 days up to 7 months. Let mama, pasture do the rest. After all SHE can do it cheaper and easier than us...lol.

 

[dun]

When we bottle fed lots of calves we weaned at around 4 weeks. Most dairys wean at 4 weeks and you could never tell that those 1200 lb springers had been hurt any in their growth.

dun