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Weight gain or loss after weaning?
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<blockquote data-quote="WFfarm" data-source="post: 1653500" data-attributes="member: 39155"><p>This year we had 49 feeders between ours and our neighbor that we pooled together. We set up our platform scales before our chute so we could weigh them individually each time we ran thru the chute. They got their second round of boosted vaccine the day they were separated to wean. They go together in a large corral on the neighbors farm with free choice second cutting hay, baleage and dry hay. They also get 2lbs/hd/day of 14% protein grain mix.</p><p></p><p>We weighed them individually the morning before they get loaded on a truck to go to our buyer, 28 days from wean to trucking. They averaged 31 lbs of gain with average age of 190 days. Some gained a few pounds, some gained up to 60 lbs. Only two lost weight, 1lb and 10 lbs. The neighbors cows are near the corral, not quite fenceline but within eyesight. There was no difference in weight gain between the home calves and the ones brought in from our farm away from their mammas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WFfarm, post: 1653500, member: 39155"] This year we had 49 feeders between ours and our neighbor that we pooled together. We set up our platform scales before our chute so we could weigh them individually each time we ran thru the chute. They got their second round of boosted vaccine the day they were separated to wean. They go together in a large corral on the neighbors farm with free choice second cutting hay, baleage and dry hay. They also get 2lbs/hd/day of 14% protein grain mix. We weighed them individually the morning before they get loaded on a truck to go to our buyer, 28 days from wean to trucking. They averaged 31 lbs of gain with average age of 190 days. Some gained a few pounds, some gained up to 60 lbs. Only two lost weight, 1lb and 10 lbs. The neighbors cows are near the corral, not quite fenceline but within eyesight. There was no difference in weight gain between the home calves and the ones brought in from our farm away from their mammas. [/QUOTE]
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