We went up to visit my in-laws last weekend and I had a big disagreement with my mother in law. She had put the 11 heifer calves up inside a locked barn for the first 5 or six days of weaning which left behind quite a lot of manure to be cleaned out (that was my job last Saturday). She didn't feel her fences were secure enough to keep them off their mothers and told me she's weaned like that for years. I asked her if she wasn't worried about them getting sick being cooped up in the barn like that but she said it wasn't likely.
Anybody else wean like that?