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Livestock => Cattle => Topic started by: Berkshire Boy on May 18, 2012, 12:04:09 pm

Title: What age to wean.
Post by: Berkshire Boy on May 18, 2012, 12:04:09 pm

What sort of age would you wean a Dexter calf. A friend is selling his cow that has a calf about 2 months old, is that too young to wean?

Title: Re: What age to wean.
Post by: robert waddell on May 18, 2012, 12:20:30 pm

to young  sucklers are self weaned at approx 9 months :farmer:

Title: Re: What age to wean.
Post by: SallyintNorth on May 18, 2012, 02:58:51 pm

Waaaayyyyy too young.  I rear calves on my Jersey house cow, they need to be at least three months old and eating a pound or two of cake in order to be weanable, in my opinion.

Title: Re: What age to wean.
Post by: Berkshire Boy on May 20, 2012, 10:50:16 pm

Thanks Sally and Robert
I thought that was the case, what I have done is agreed to buy the cow as long as the calf comes as well and I will wean him and then my mate can have him back.