aj
Well-known member
Any one early weaning calves? Tricks,strategies, or is it same as normal? Rations?
aandtcattle said:Well, bud, it looks like we are gunna have to wean early august this year and I have a few ideas.
Where I can, I'm gunna fence-line wean, which I have found is much less stress on the calf. We are going to be dealing with some real young, light-weight, drought stressed calves to begin with so I want to pamper them as much as possible. I am going to precondition the end of July with Pulmoguard PHM-1 for pasteurella and TSV-2 intranasalfor immediate viral protection. After weaning I will re-up with Vision 7 w/somnus and bovi-shield gold 5. Im planning on grinding a mixture of hays to include about 50% CRP hay, 25% 1st cuttin alfalfa and 25% hailed wheat hay. I will load the chuckwagon with ground hay and top it off with wet gluten to supply about 5 pounds gluten/head as fed. I will see how they do on this ration, I may have to put out some hi energy lick barrels or a liquid supplement of some sort.