New Duh Pictures

[Roy and Vicky]

This little guy is going to be the death of me LOL He's so stinking cute! I go out and he's all over me rubbing and wanting my attention and scratches and rubbing and talking to him.

Tell me he's not the cutest thing since peanut butter!

He looks better than he did even a few days ago. The molasses in his calf starter really did the trick. he's eating about 1-2 cups in the daytime and likely about a cup over night and drinking his water from a dog dish. The bucket just is not flying with him at all he won't put his head in it no matter what, the handle on it jingles and he's done with it even a pot he would not didn't like the noise. So I used the dog dish in the milk crate and bingo yummy time!!!!!!! Best part, no signs of scours from the changes in diet!!!! he's up to about 10 hours of pasture time. Do we need to work him up to 24 hours out there or can he go on pasture 24 hours now?

 

[redtailgal]

He's looking pretty good, I'd say.

Now that he is starting to work on some grain, you'll see him "beef out" a little heavier.

If he's taking 10 hours of pasture without a problem, I'd just let him have at it. As for leaving him out 24 hours, if you are confident that you dont have a predator problem, he should be fine. Just remember, that other calves his age have a mother to protect them from the nighttime boogers.

As he ages and gains confidence, the noises wont be as bothersome to him. I'd go ahead and get him a mineral block....he may not use it much now, but it's good to have it if he needs it.

Oh, and with my calves that age, I slowly work them up to where they are eating about 3 lbs of grain a day, esp if they cannot be on pasture 24/7. SLOWLY (I add a handful a day so long as the bowels are right). Others may disagree with my stance on that, so dont feel that it's necessary. I like to see my calves fat and slick before I wean them.

 

[WildRoseBeef]

What are ya talking about him being thin?? He looks like a normal, healthy, trouble-huntin' calf to me, like any Angus calf should look! :bun

 

[Roy and Vicky]

When i first started posting about him being skinny to me, I could see his hip bones and almost put my hand up under his back bone, I had so much going on I didn't remember to go take pics until today. I'd like someone to take some of these cookies off my hand tho lol got about seven different kinds going on here.

He has really started to look like what I thought he should look like in the last few days after he really began eating the grain.

When he goes in the chicken coup at night we don't close him in, the fencing is about five foot around the enclosure, I would expect a wolf or coyote could get over that just as easily as the hog panel outside, I guess maybe leave him outside during the day and back in the coup enclosure for a while longer. Or we could even move the dog kennel over to where he's going to be for a while til he's big enough to be out on the full pasture alone with no shelter at night, that way we could close him in the kennel at night, i can't imagine a predator getting over the 7 foot dog kennel.