I have raised now 3 bottle calves and I can say from my limited experience that I have weaned my three at 7 months, 6 months and 5 months. My oldest calf was weaned at 7 months and the next was at 6 months and finally my little heifer calf was recently weaned at 5 months. However, with my heifer...
Update here as well: Minos and the other bottle baby went to their new homes at the end of June and as luck would have it, I finally got my Bottle Heifer that I wanted. Her name is Mira and she is now almost 7 months old. She is very wee right now, but that is to be expected for a bottle baby.
What I use for milk replacer is a medicated one that has medication in it for coccidosis. I would have to ask a few questions
1. how much are you feeding? (ie 2 full bottles a day etc)
2. what color is her runny stool
I would not let the runny stool run its course because it could turn into...
Ah ok. Dyne is a high caloric additive that you can had to your livestock's food to help with energy and weight. I put a couple of squirts of it in my bottle calf's milk 2/day and they have shown nice results. As to how fast you would use it up, that would depend on how often you used it. the...
Adding to this thread is some new things I have discovered recently:
My Bottle baby from last year Murray has been in with my newest bottle calf Mira. I have discovered that he has been "Teaching her how to cow" which is great for her since that way she will know that she is a cow and not a...
in an even more surprising event one of our very tame cows had a set of twins, she accepted one(like normal) and rejected the other one, so now I have another little guy to take care of. I must say this one for being a few days old is a very stubborn calf. When I get him cornered I can get him...
Well now the baby is on 2 bottles a day now. Also to add to my long fun summer I now have a 2 day old bottle baby from another cow that is having issues standing. When she stand the "wrist" joint right above her hoof moves and she is walking on that joint and not her front hooves. our Vet says...