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Wow! You are worth your weight in gold! I'm glad I found this site and I'm grateful for all of your information. Soon I will basically have a digital bovine encyclopedia that I can read back on!! As for my bull...I had an offer that I can't refuse. My cousin offered to buy him from me at a...

Farmerjan, as always you came through again! I appreciate you taking the time to answer my questions so throughly! I take a lot of pride in raising my animals and always appreciate it when someone stops at my place or sees me in the store and says "hey, your cows look good". I am glad to hear...

Hello all! Hope everyone had a good holiday season! My question to the group is...to those who feed grain to their cows, how much do you feed daily? I'm not looking to push any steers or anything, just a good daily maintenance amount (free choice hay 24/7 of course). I have 5 cows total, one...

Ok folks, my calf is 8 weeks old now. I just bought another bag of milk replacer (I'm hoping my last). When should I start the weaning process, and how do I go about it? Right now she gets 2 quarts of milk replacer twice a day. Thanks!

I can't remember who asked for an update on how she's doing, but she's doing great now! She's eating up to 3lbs of starter a day and growing! Next step is to get her off the bottle!

Following the advice of some of the experienced members on here...I'm starting a journal on my first attempt at raising a bottle calf!

Ok thank you! I'll try to figure out how to start a thread (not very tech savvy lol)

Hello all! Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! I'm posting a picture of my first bottle calf to get some of you experts opinions. She is an angus holstein cross and she is 7 weeks old. Am I doing ok with her? Is she too skinny, too fat? Does her hair coat look ok. Overall, does she look...

I feed my big cows purina stocker grower 14% protein, its the textured stuff with oats shelled corn etc. Could I feed that to my calf or do they need a dedicated "calf starter?"

Merry Christmas everyone! Anyone ever feed calf manna feed to a bottle calf? I know the name of the feed has "calf" in it, but I looked up the protein content of the feed and its listed at 25%! Is this good to feed to a bottle calf (6 weeks old)? I normally feed purina precon but the feed...

Ok farmerjan I'm back with another question. My calf is doing beyond better now. On Christmas eve she will be 6 weeks old. She's now eating hay and around 1.5 pounds of starter. Should I be thinking about getting her off the bottle, or just keep giving the 2 bottles plus all the hay and starter...

I'm a long way away from this yet but I'm looking for some of that long time knowledge and experience. I'm currently raising a holstein/angus heifer bottle calf. I was thinking about growing her out and breeding her with my purebred Hereford bull. Would the resulting calves make good beef...

Nice to see another fellow Pennsylvanian on here! North central PA here, also on 35 acres in the middle of nowhere and loving it!

10-4, got it!

Good evening all, Question for all you cattle minded people. Currently raising a bottle calf. She's going on 6 weeks old. Everything about her seems a ok. She gets 2 bottles a day with the exception of the past few days, she's been getting an extra quart at night cause its been down in the...

Farmerjan, I'll be the first one to say that theres a lot of things I don't know about cattle, not even ashamed to say it. I am however alot further along than I was last year at this time haha. I do enjoy learning everything I can about raising them. I'm forever grateful for all the info you're...

Man...I sure am glad I found this site!! You've been very helpful. I definitely did jump the gun when I bought him. He was some girls 4h project and she raised him up from a bottle baby, had him halter broke and leading. Then the pandemic hit and the shows were all canceled for the year so her...

Thanks for the great info! I do plan on fencing off a few acres for my bull and am gonna run a steer with him. It was supposed to be done this year but the election infection made it impossible for me to get any materials out to my place. Even now building and fencing materials are hard to come...

Hello all, Being as though I'm new to raising a bottle calf, only ever raising feeders, I was wondering when I could put my calf out to pasture with the rest of my herd? Currently I have a 2 year old pregnant momma (Hereford), a 1 year old Hereford bull, 2 spring calves ( about 450 - 500lbs)...

How bout salt and minerals? Should I be offering that to my calf yet?