Author Topic: What age to wean. (Read 2585 times)

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?

robert waddell · « **Reply #1 on:** May 18, 2012, 12:20:30 pm »

to young sucklers are self weaned at approx 9 months

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #2 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.

Berkshire Boy · « **Reply #3 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.