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Rearing calves on grass
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 6985809" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>That's what both my wife and I arrived at, maybe start with 10 and then adjust from there - the main "problem" is that your calves will be eating very little while your grass is away like a bottle-rocket in the spring, and then they'll eat progressively more and more as they grow.</p><p>Keeping your feed in a vegetative stage is the big challenge.</p><p></p><p>When I was rearing my own as a sideline project, I used to grab a tractor to unload my pallet of feeders/milkpowder etc, and I'd mow the entire grazing area at that point. It helped to keep up with it.</p><p></p><p>Then I worked out it was much better to buy a couple of "headache cows" from my boss and use them as toppers/automated calf feeding machines, at that time their purchase price was the equivalent of 4.5bags of milk powder. </p><p>You know, cows unfit for milking purposes, maybe a bit of a crook udder or feet. Perfect old girls for attaching a few calves to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 6985809, member: 63856"] That's what both my wife and I arrived at, maybe start with 10 and then adjust from there - the main "problem" is that your calves will be eating very little while your grass is away like a bottle-rocket in the spring, and then they'll eat progressively more and more as they grow. Keeping your feed in a vegetative stage is the big challenge. When I was rearing my own as a sideline project, I used to grab a tractor to unload my pallet of feeders/milkpowder etc, and I'd mow the entire grazing area at that point. It helped to keep up with it. Then I worked out it was much better to buy a couple of "headache cows" from my boss and use them as toppers/automated calf feeding machines, at that time their purchase price was the equivalent of 4.5bags of milk powder. You know, cows unfit for milking purposes, maybe a bit of a crook udder or feet. Perfect old girls for attaching a few calves to. [/QUOTE]
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