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<blockquote data-quote="Aaron" data-source="post: 608025" data-attributes="member: 1682"><p>We started doing the 300 day weaning a year or two before the research from the New Liskeard Research Station in Northern Ontario came out on the option to use a 300 day weaning protocol. Their research on it agrees with our findings that cows, fed properly, suffer no ill effects from suckling calves for 300 days as opposed to 200 days. </p><p></p><p>Here is my post from a couple years ago,</p><p></p><p>"Well Sidney, last year we left our spring calves on the cows for 9 months. We found that if you are going to leave the calves on the cows for 7 months, you might as well keep them on for another 2. Gained about another 100 pounds on the calves and they were more prepared to be weaned as they did not lose much weight due to stress. Cows didn't suffer much and all with calves weaned on December 29th calved with healthy calves again.</p><p></p><p>New research coming out of a research station working with beef cattle in our province has found that keeping calves on cows for 300 days has no long term impacts on the cows and is quite beneficial for the calves. I will try to see if the article is online or not. Some researchers are now starting to suggest that the 205 day standard for weaning weight should be changed to about 250 or even 300 days...as 205 reflects a time when calves that are weaned are susceptable for lost potential gain.</p><p></p><p>That's why we left the calves on for 10 months this time around. No problem for the cows or the calves. Looking to continue doing this 300 days weaning as it makes everything much simpler."</p><p></p><p>I wasn't able to find the article and accompanying research, but I know I have it in a cattle magazine around here somewhere. :cowboy:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aaron, post: 608025, member: 1682"] We started doing the 300 day weaning a year or two before the research from the New Liskeard Research Station in Northern Ontario came out on the option to use a 300 day weaning protocol. Their research on it agrees with our findings that cows, fed properly, suffer no ill effects from suckling calves for 300 days as opposed to 200 days. Here is my post from a couple years ago, "Well Sidney, last year we left our spring calves on the cows for 9 months. We found that if you are going to leave the calves on the cows for 7 months, you might as well keep them on for another 2. Gained about another 100 pounds on the calves and they were more prepared to be weaned as they did not lose much weight due to stress. Cows didn't suffer much and all with calves weaned on December 29th calved with healthy calves again. New research coming out of a research station working with beef cattle in our province has found that keeping calves on cows for 300 days has no long term impacts on the cows and is quite beneficial for the calves. I will try to see if the article is online or not. Some researchers are now starting to suggest that the 205 day standard for weaning weight should be changed to about 250 or even 300 days...as 205 reflects a time when calves that are weaned are susceptable for lost potential gain. That's why we left the calves on for 10 months this time around. No problem for the cows or the calves. Looking to continue doing this 300 days weaning as it makes everything much simpler." I wasn't able to find the article and accompanying research, but I know I have it in a cattle magazine around here somewhere. :cowboy: [/QUOTE]
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