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<blockquote data-quote="amadfarmer" data-source="post: 6665811" data-attributes="member: 76032"><p>I have been rearing calves now for around 3 years slowly building up the size of groups i buy. But i have always found that after weening (7-9weeks) they always loose the growth rate they had on milk. Recently the current bunch averaged a DLWG of 1.37kg on milk powder but 2 weeks after weaning this is dropping to around 0.7kg. And this seems to be a common trend i am having. They are on ad lib cereal and concentrate mix and chopped straw and haylage and i have been putting a bit of baled whole crop in front of them this time. Calves would have been weaned over 10 days of once a day feeding at the highest rate of powder mix recommended by the manufacturer at a rate of 3L per feed. I have tried feeding milk different rates too see if this had any impact but i am always getting similar results. it might be perfectly normal for this to happen but reading on here in other threads there are much better growth rates being achieved after weaning. </p><p></p><p>Any advice will be appreciated thanks</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="amadfarmer, post: 6665811, member: 76032"] I have been rearing calves now for around 3 years slowly building up the size of groups i buy. But i have always found that after weening (7-9weeks) they always loose the growth rate they had on milk. Recently the current bunch averaged a DLWG of 1.37kg on milk powder but 2 weeks after weaning this is dropping to around 0.7kg. And this seems to be a common trend i am having. They are on ad lib cereal and concentrate mix and chopped straw and haylage and i have been putting a bit of baled whole crop in front of them this time. Calves would have been weaned over 10 days of once a day feeding at the highest rate of powder mix recommended by the manufacturer at a rate of 3L per feed. I have tried feeding milk different rates too see if this had any impact but i am always getting similar results. it might be perfectly normal for this to happen but reading on here in other threads there are much better growth rates being achieved after weaning. Any advice will be appreciated thanks [/QUOTE]
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