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Livestock => Cattle => Topic started by: m3joeEm on March 17, 2015, 12:15:24 pm

Title: how much to feed calves?
Post by: m3joeEm on March 17, 2015, 12:15:24 pm

How much meal should 3-4 month old calves get daily? They have Adlib hay and water and i was wondering how much meal would be best?

Title: Re: how much to feed calves?
Post by: SallyintNorth on March 17, 2015, 04:38:04 pm

I don't wean my calves until they are capable of cleaning up a scoop (about 2kgs) of cake each in twenty minutes. 

I then give them an extra scoop a day when they are weaned to replace the milk they are no longer getting.