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Milk replacer that suckler calves will take ?

  • 11-04-2012 11:28am
    #1
    tim04750
    Closed Accounts Posts: 216 ✭✭


    I have a couple of first calvers a bit slack on milk, giving them a bit of meal to boost and I know getting them to grass would help a lot, but still a bit harsh for young calves to be out where there is little shelter.
    I'm trying to get them to take a bottle once a day to take a bit of pressure of the heifers and stop the calves becoming thieves but they seem to think I'm trying to poison 'em, trying with maverick, anyone with advice/solution ?


Comments

  • #2
    49801
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭49801


    ur too soft;)
    get them out!


  • #3
    Dunedin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Dunedin


    49801 wrote: »
    ur too soft;)
    get them out!


    there won't be a loss on them out. The cold won't affect them. Only really bad wind and rain together causes problems.

    Give the mothers dairy nuts and rather than trying to give a bottle to calves on a cow (God bless your patience if you can pull that off), maybe try to set up an area to give the calves a bit of creep.


  • #4
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    Dunedin wrote: »
    there won't be a loss on them out. The cold won't affect them. Only really bad wind and rain together causes problems.

    Give the mothers dairy nuts and rather than trying to give a bottle to calves on a cow (God bless your patience if you can pull that off), maybe try to set up an area to give the calves a bit of creep.
    Spot on.
    Calves are either on the cow or the bucket. I couldn't see them willingly taking both and honestly I'd be afraid if inducing a nutritional scour.

    Bring milk on in the mothers and get the calves onto crunch too.
    We find that if you catch calves and force a little crunch into their mouths they will quickly develop a taste for it, once is usually enough and if you get one or two to the feeder then more will follow.


  • #5
    tim04750
    Closed Accounts Posts: 216 ✭✭tim04750


    Christ, I hadn't thought of givin them crunch, one of them is only three days old but the rest of 'em should be ok, and they would be out and gone but the wind would absolutely skin ya these last few days,
    Now where's me angle grinder, I'll make use of that trough with the broken legs :D
    cheers for the replies


  • #6
    Atilathehun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Atilathehun


    Had a grand daughter of that great milk trait bull CF52:rolleyes: , calve this year . She had absolutely almost zero milk, and a big hungry simmental calf to feed. Only option, was straight out to grass and dairy nuts twice a day. Five weeks on, she has come into a fine dug of milk, and calf is thriving.
    Fresh, early spring grass does wonders for milk.


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