Creep feeding A cow’s milk production peaks when the calf is 60 days old, and then declines. Before the 60 days, the calf usually starts consuming a small number of forages, but once the milk ...

“If feed is $0.40 per kg, it’s a $100 per calf saving,” he said. “The younger we feed animals, the higher the feed conversion, so that’s really the best time to supplement an animal.” ...

See also: Advice on feeding calves for good rumen development While the amounts eaten will be minimal in the first week of life, calves will be curious and begin to play with the feed.

Dried-out pastures make any nutritious creep feeding program work, but we seemed to forget that a lot of rain makes us dependent upon profitable economics, if we are going to creep-feed calves until ...

Dr. John Campbell is one of the country’s leading cattle experts, but even he doesn’t have much experience with early weaning of calves. It can be an option when feed is scarce, but the practice comes ...

Glacier FarmMedia— When it comes to more efficient feed conversion in calves before weaning, the sooner a calf’s rumen is developed, the better. According to Gerard Roney, founder and managing ...

Colostrum Care Centre All the way from the U.S., the Colostrum Care Centre is a processing unit designed to offer complete handling of colostrum from cow to calf. It carries out the bagging, ...

Jay Hager, who runs a cow-calf operation near Provost, has never fed his cattle at night and doesn’t plan to start. “I get my butt out of bed in the morning and feed mine. If I ever break down or ...