Calfs sucking each others navels

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another thing we do, is we don't enlarge the holes on the end of the teats, drives us mad waiting for them to finish, but it seems to help with our system as described above !!
 
Apologies for being flip - I know how annoying it is

How old are they?
Salt can help, I know folk who simply wash out their feeder and leave an inch of water in the bottom, the calves then clean out the teats and it puts their sucking habit to bed, or so they say.
Haven't tried that yet, as a lump of salt and a rubber ball or 2 seem to work for us.

1 week old to 3 weeks old..
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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