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weanling feed ?

  • 26-04-2012 11:46pm
    #1
    noseyhole
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    hi yall
    what should you feed calves just weaned . follow on nuts or crunch ?
    thanks


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  • #2
    PatQfarmer
    Registered Users Posts: 597 ✭✭✭PatQfarmer


    noseyhole wrote: »
    hi yall
    what should you feed calves just weaned . follow on nuts or crunch ?
    thanks

    We use all Gain(Glanbia) feed.
    Startacalf at begining, while still on milk, then onto Calf Crunch probably when eating half kg. Wean at 6/7 weeks, then couple of weeks later, mix in Calf Rearer nuts, gradually going fully onto them, same lead-in to regular beef nut at about 4 months.


  • #3
    grumpyfarmer
    Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭grumpyfarmer


    We mix up our own calf ration,just by hand half a ton or so at a time. 4 parts rolled barley to 1 part citrus pulp to 1 part soybean meal with the appropriate amount of general purpose mineral.. usually start them on it at4 weeks of age or so tho..


  • #4
    jimmydkid
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    My weanlings seem to prefer crunch to nuts, might be the molasses in crunch. They seem to do well on it anyways


  • #5
    noseyhole
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    thanks for the answers guys.


  • #6
    Farmer Pudsey
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    grumpyfarmer wrote: »
    We mix up our own calf ration,just by hand half a ton or so at a time. 4 parts rolled barley to 1 part citrus pulp to 1 part soybean meal with the appropriate amount of general purpose mineral.. usually start them on it at4 weeks of age or so tho..

    is that by weight or volume :confused:


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  • #7
    grumpyfarmer
    Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭grumpyfarmer


    Farmer Pudsey wrote: »
    grumpyfarmer wrote: »
    We mix up our own calf ration,just by hand half a ton or so at a time. 4 parts rolled barley to 1 part citrus pulp to 1 part soybean meal with the appropriate amount of general purpose mineral.. usually start them on it at4 weeks of age or so tho..

    is that by weight or volume :confused:
    Oh right... oops . it's by weight, i weigh a 5 gallon drum of each ingredient and work it out from that. then usually 4 or 5 turns of the heap with a grain shovel mixes it good enough. just drum it into a half ton bag for storage..


  • #8
    Grecco
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    Nuts have the advantage that they don't draw the fecking crows :D


  • #9
    haybob
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    noseyhole wrote: »
    hi yall
    what should you feed calves just weaned . follow on nuts or crunch ?
    thanks

    Crunch first and then I mix equal pars crunch and beef nuts later on.

    Crunch is great stuff altogether I mix it with meal to start stock off on meal, or mix it with a dairy nuts for a cow with twins or a cow slack on milk i evn put a bag of two of it in a tub mixer when the silage wasn't great


  • #10
    grumpyfarmer
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    Grecco wrote: »
    Nuts have the advantage that they don't draw the fecking crows :D
    True enough feeding them in the evening helps too, doesn't seem to be as many crows around then...


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