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<blockquote data-quote="TheRanger" data-source="post: 7848409" data-attributes="member: 740"><p>Have replacement heifer calves on an auto feeder (13 years old, but reliable and working well) on a decent milk powder (6.5L per day working out at 30ppl, but that’ll be up significantly on the next pallet load by the look of things).</p><p></p><p>AA beef calves are in hutches on colostrum/waste milk, topped up with milk powder if necessary. They’re probably on 8L per day on average.</p><p></p><p>This works well for us as I wouldn’t want to feed replacements any waste milk from a disease prevention point of view. The ones in hutches generally do quite a bit better. Time wise the feeder probably does save a bit of time, and is definitely more flexible time wise. But there probably isn’t that much in it overall. We clean the teats with a disinfectant spray 3x per day and replace them probably twice a week.</p><p></p><p>If I had the funds to buy a new auto feeder, I’d probably spend it on hutches with decent penning and a nicely drained concrete base to site them, and a basic milk cart type machine that you could use with waste milk and/or powder.</p><p></p><p>I think I’v seen [USER=41810]@coomoo[/USER] post pics of his setup, which looked ideal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheRanger, post: 7848409, member: 740"] Have replacement heifer calves on an auto feeder (13 years old, but reliable and working well) on a decent milk powder (6.5L per day working out at 30ppl, but that’ll be up significantly on the next pallet load by the look of things). AA beef calves are in hutches on colostrum/waste milk, topped up with milk powder if necessary. They’re probably on 8L per day on average. This works well for us as I wouldn’t want to feed replacements any waste milk from a disease prevention point of view. The ones in hutches generally do quite a bit better. Time wise the feeder probably does save a bit of time, and is definitely more flexible time wise. But there probably isn’t that much in it overall. We clean the teats with a disinfectant spray 3x per day and replace them probably twice a week. If I had the funds to buy a new auto feeder, I’d probably spend it on hutches with decent penning and a nicely drained concrete base to site them, and a basic milk cart type machine that you could use with waste milk and/or powder. I think I’v seen [USER=41810]@coomoo[/USER] post pics of his setup, which looked ideal. [/QUOTE]
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