Showing posts with label beef. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beef. Show all posts

Friday, December 28, 2012

Feeding Baby Calves

I know it has been a long time since I updated a post for feeding baby calves and I have been trying to get a post in but just have not had the time. This year has just zoomed by and it must have seemed like I gave up on feeding baby calves all together.

Well not so. This year has been a little slower than those in the past for bottle feeding calves, but there was still a good number of calves raised on the bottle.

Just last month ten Holstein steer calves was weaned from the bottle and right now there is one Angus heifer calf on bottle. Four Holstein steers have just arrived from the dairy farm.

These four came from the same dairy the other ten did. This has been a new dairy farm that we started to get our calves from. The previous dairy we used went out of business. It didn't surprise me. The price of milk has not been good for the dairy farmers last year. The owners operating the old dairy really  made their living by selling real estate.

The good news is this new dairy is a little bigger and can supply a few more calves. We should have no problem with raising full groups of Holstein calves this upcoming year. 

Just weaned Holstein Steers



Trudy getting some bottle


Trudy still after the bottle 


The four new guys