Weaning

[lancemart]

My Holstein now is 2 1/2 month old. The first 6 weeks I fed 3 qts. of milk replace per day. Up until yester I fed 2 qts a day. She is now on only 1 qt. per day. Is this the correct way to wean her off the milk replacer. How many more weeks do I have to feed her milk.

 

[Sir Loin]

What do you intend to do with this calf after you wean it? :?:
SL

 

[dun]

Take her off the milk replacer, just make sure she's eating 2-3 lbs of grain a day.

Normally bottle calves are weaned by just going cold turkey from 2 bottles a day to none, or a couple of days to a week of one a day then stop.

You'll aalso need to continue feeding grain until she's 6-8 months old. If you plan on milking her, continue the grain for the rest of her life. Increase the grain when she's milking and cut it way back when she's dry

 

[lancemart]

What do you intend to do with this calf after you wean it? :?:
SL

She will be our famly milk cowi