Hilly
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Whats cheap easy effective way to weigh new born calves ?
My crush is a bit of a treck from where I calve. Think a little weigh platforM be best bet eh .does your cattle crush have weighbars? carry them in and deduct your weight or make a narrow calf taxi to wheel in. The other option is buy a small weigh platform to have in a handy place and again use a wheelbarrow.
Good idea !Yeah you can buy a basic one fairly cheap and if you can have a little ramp up on to it, its a fairly easy job with a wheel barrow. I move all our calves with a jfc plastic wheel barrow with the deep straight sides.
What’s that ?What about a calf weighing tape?
Oic , my mild dose of ocd wouldn’t cope with that weights n measures has to be precise or it bugs me and I can’t sleepA calibrated tape that you wrap round chest and read the weight. Calibrated for different breeds but open to operater error!
Looks good that .View attachment 909689View attachment 909689there was athread on this a while back> I don't use these I use the weighing platform
Borrow the bathroom scales off the wife and hold the calf and deduct your own weight
I’m thinking a hang scale with a light weight tripod calf ina sack or something .In a shed or field - old way was to hang a scale from a beam and use a sling- used to do that when the calf groap collected calves in laybies
Performance recording .Why are you wanting to weigh them?
Calf group used a rope but cut a lorry strap up - if you want to be posh stitch some blanket to itI’m thinking a hang scale with a light weight tripod calf ina sack or something .