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:cboy: How long should you let your calves suck on a bred cow? My first calf is six months old and we are going to sell him next week. How much should he weigh at six months? What is the average sale age for calves that you don't keep. :?:
 
NewCowboy":o9cm555i said:
:cboy: How long should you let your calves suck on a bred cow? My first calf is six months old and we are going to sell him next week. How much should he weigh at six months? What is the average sale age for calves that you don't keep. :?:
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We typically wean at 5-6 months of age. Heifers are kept and fed for a while, then replacements are sorted off and kept and the rest get a one way ticket, steers typically go to the salebarn straight off their mother, except for one or two that we keep for the freezer. I cannot address the question of weaning weight, sorry. Out of my realm of experience. Average sale age for calves not kept depends on your operation. Some sell them right off their mothers, some feed them to a certain weight and then sell them, some do something else.
 
In my heard its between 5 and six on the commercials. I look to wean the regs. at 205 day average. I don't like to keep the clves much longer than 7 months myself.


Scotty
 
:cboy: Thanks for your information. I am eleven and have my first cows now for one year. This will be my first calf to sell. I am very excited about it. Did you say that the calf should weigh 205 pounds at 5-6 months?
 
NewCowboy":20fveq02 said:
:cboy: Thanks for your information. I am eleven and have my first cows now for one year. This will be my first calf to sell. I am very excited about it. Did you say that the calf should weigh 205 pounds at 5-6 months?
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Depending on the breed the calf should way from 350 which is very light to the mid 600s which is more average. A Jersey would be the lighter weight, Simmenthal, charolais would be the heavier range.
The 205 days is the number that breed associations and the Beef Improvement Federation uses to calculate adjusted weaning weights.
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