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[gone up the hill]

Should you not have asked it’s age before telling someone when too wean their calf?

Yes i should have in hindsight but i fail to see how a 12 week old calve ( which is when it should be weaned at the latest ) could be on its third bag of milk powder!

 

[Anymulewilldo]

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Whitland yesterday.

Too quality calves are still big money.

There was a 3/4 bred lim bull in Drayton today, born via the side door. Cow had died, 4 week old calf didn’t quite hit £500. It was a hell of a nice calf but Jesus...

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Yes i should have in hindsight but i fail to see how a 12 week old calve ( which is when it should be weaned at the latest ) could be on its third bag of milk powder!

How have you ascertained it is 12 weeks? When a calf hits 6 weeks it will drink a bag in just over a fortnight?

 

[gone up the hill]

How have you ascertained it is 12 weeks? When a calf hits 6 weeks it will drink a bag in just over a fortnight?

You should aim to wean at 10- 12 weeks old.

A 12 week old calve will not use 2 bags of powder.

If you are using a bag a calve a fortnight after 6 weeks then you need to cut rates and up the pellets.

Target should be no more than 1.5 bags a calve from 2 weeks old.

 

[andybk]

Reckon 150/160 ish cant see them being much more...cash will be tight every bill we get on the farm gets bigger ...cash just disappears

just seen sedgemore last fri report breeding ewes :

Breeding Ewes (92) An impromptu entry of 92 breeding ewes and ewe hoggs sold readily. Suffolk Mule ewe hoggs to £155 from Foxhollow Farm Ltd. North Country ewe hoggs to £140 from Pikes Farm. Hampshire cross ewe hoggs to £133 from S Pearce. Overall average £133.55

 

[gone up the hill]

just seen sedgemore last fri report breeding ewes :

Breeding Ewes (92) An impromptu entry of 92 breeding ewes and ewe hoggs sold readily. Suffolk Mule ewe hoggs to £155 from Foxhollow Farm Ltd. North Country ewe hoggs to £140 from Pikes Farm. Hampshire cross ewe hoggs to £133 from S Pearce. Overall average £133.55

Sounds dear but they had one hell of a couple's trade on Sat, esp for younger outfits, some were well over £100 head a life and the lambs were not that big for that money!

 

[Werzle]

That calve should have been on pellets and weaned weeks ago!

How old is it now?

Dont get your knickers in a twist, he was a prem calf and will never amount to much. He's almost become a pet .

 

[JSmith]

Sounds dear but they had one hell of a couple's trade on Sat, esp for younger outfits, some were well over £100 head a life and the lambs were not that big for that money!

Doesn’t sound dear to me, they’d of been 170’s in Hereford yesterday, easily an more

 

[Scu6499]

I did Drayton calves this morning as well 100 miles each way watched the first 200 sold and didn’t get started truely mental had blue heifers delivered in this afternoon for 50 a piece less

 

[gone up the hill]

Dont get your knickers in a twist, he was a prem calf and will never amount to much. He's almost become a pet .

Well as he is prem calf i would keep feeding him and not worry about how many bags of powder he drinks.

Even thou he is prem more often than not calves like him end up doing very well given time, all depends on the calve, some are fighters and some just give up but he sounds like the former!

My comments ref bags used was for normal calves on bagged milk from say 2 weeks to 10/12 weeks old.

 

[Werzle]

I did Drayton calves this morning as well 100 miles each way watched the first 200 sold and didn’t get started truely mental had blue heifers delivered in this afternoon for 50 a piece less

Your an expert calf rearer, how much milk replacer on average would your calves use?
On a bag of bloom its 125g p/litre and 2-3litres p/ feed. Makes alot of difference if the calves come in at 4-6weeks old

 

[Scu6499]

We’ve not quite used 10 ton yet and 360 weaned since November so we’re just over 25kg a calf

 

[neilo]

How big is ‘a bag’ of milk powder? Is it 10kg, 20kg or 25kg?

Surely the size of the unit must be ascertained before expert advice is given, or ridiculed....

 

[Scu6499]

I in no way claim to be a expert but it works out at 27.083kg per calf and there’s 25kg in the bags we use

 

[Mc115reed]

How big is ‘a bag’ of milk powder? Is it 10kg, 20kg or 25kg?

Surely the size of the unit must be ascertained before expert advice is given, or ridiculed....

Glad wasn’t just me thinking that...not too mention the quality of the powders and its mix rate....

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I always thought calf milk powder came in 20 kilos bags.

 

[neilo]

I in no way claim to be a expert but it works out at 27.083kg per calf and there’s 25kg in the bags we use

I always thought calf milk powder came in 20 kilos bags.

Two options so far. Maybe they do 50kg bags in Devon, explaining guthrie’s declaration?

 

[Werzle]

I always thought calf milk powder came in 20 kilos bags.

Most do but some of the premium powders are 25

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Two options so far. Maybe they do 50kg bags in Devon, explaining guthrie’s declaration?

600 kilo bags like fertiliser down there

 

[Tomo23]

40 on a ton pallet here.