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What to feed 3 month old plus dairy-bred beef calves?
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<blockquote data-quote="HarryB97" data-source="post: 7356256" data-attributes="member: 8256"><p>Get them started on some silage and reduce the pellets from ad-lib down to 2-3kg per head per day and a kilo or two of oats if you want to dilute the pellets and reduce the cost. It would be worth weighing them each month to see if the ration change is more cost affective etc. You could drop to a 14% pellet which we did but the price difference was around £5 per tonne from memory so we went back to a 16%. We get all ours on ad lib silage a few weeks after weaning and keep feeding an 18% calf nut at 3kg per day till they around 12-14 weeks old then transition onto a much cheaper 16% blend from Berrystock Feeds.</p><p>If you plan to keep them in then push them like above but if they will graze this year decrease the hard feed as you approach turnout date.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HarryB97, post: 7356256, member: 8256"] Get them started on some silage and reduce the pellets from ad-lib down to 2-3kg per head per day and a kilo or two of oats if you want to dilute the pellets and reduce the cost. It would be worth weighing them each month to see if the ration change is more cost affective etc. You could drop to a 14% pellet which we did but the price difference was around £5 per tonne from memory so we went back to a 16%. We get all ours on ad lib silage a few weeks after weaning and keep feeding an 18% calf nut at 3kg per day till they around 12-14 weeks old then transition onto a much cheaper 16% blend from Berrystock Feeds. If you plan to keep them in then push them like above but if they will graze this year decrease the hard feed as you approach turnout date. [/QUOTE]
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