Best Meal for new born calves

grange mac

Lads,

What do ye give new born calves...ones here are scouring v badly after calf nuts...dont seem to be agreeing with them...

Reggie.

grange mac wrote: »

Lads,

What do ye give new born calves...ones here are scouring v badly after calf nuts...dont seem to be agreeing with them...

I usually give them grennans calf ration/crunch

Jb1989

Lake lands calf crunch
Or lake lands calf pencils
No noticeable problems

Kovu

We usually only give calf pencils from Paul & Vincent. We've three week old twins are eating Dairy 18 now though :pac:

greysides

Are you sure it's the nuts? What age are they?

whelan2

at this time of year we switch from calf crunch to calf pencils/nuts as the crows are feckers for taking the crunch but as greysides says it mightnt be the meal causing the scour

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

at this time of year we switch from calf crunch to calf pencils/nuts as the crows are feckers for taking the crunch but as greysides says it mightnt be the meal causing the scour

Do you not find the crows going for the pencils/nuts aswell

visatorro

Reggie. wrote:

Do you not find the crows going for the pencils aswell

didn't know crows could write

Dawggone

How much per ton are calf crunch/pencils?

_Brian

We found that nice fresh rolled barley seems very attractive to them and is a great starter, then mix in regular beef nut, moving to full beef nut.

Occasional scour but nothing serious down the years..

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

Do you not find the crows going for the pencils/nuts aswell

not as much as the calf crunch

Bullocks

_Brian wrote: »

We found that nice fresh rolled barley seems very attractive to them and is a great starter, then mix in regular beef nut, moving to full beef nut.

Occasional scour but nothing serious down the years..

Same as that , they actually eat the rolled barley first before they look at calf crunch if you throw out the two either side of the trough. It doesn't say much for the calf crunch IMO .

_Brian

Jb1989 wrote: »

Lake lands calf crunch
Or lake lands calf pencils
No noticeable problems

tried lakelands crunch.. found it very, very dusty.. I actually returned some unopened bags I was so unhappy with it.

C0N0R

Pattons calf crunch here and find it super.

mahoney_j

Suckler mate from Arrabawn.18% nut/pencil .wouldnt feed anything else

Farrell

grange mac wrote: »

Lads,

What do ye give new born calves...ones here are scouring v badly after calf nuts...dont seem to be agreeing with them...

What nuts are you giving your cows?
We found giving beef nut to cows can cause this

orm0nd

Liffey 18 % ration while on milk & then Roches Super calf nut when weaned

Base price

We always start them off with crunch (Lakelands) then after a week we mix rolled barley that we buy in bulk from Gilsenans near Oldcastle.
Agree with Brian that Lakelands crunch is dusty but 1) it is the only one available in our area and 2) when mixed with the barley there is less waste.
We keep them on a taste of barley while on grass during the summer and then add a beef nut coming into winter. We rear FR bull calves and find that this system works best for us.

grange mac

greysides wrote: »

Are you sure it's the nuts? What age are they?

2 weeks...fine calves but going back since started the calf pencils

Base price

grange mac wrote: »

2 weeks...fine calves but going back since started the calf pencils

They maybe gorging on the pencils and it is upsetting their system. Maybe give them some hay or barley straw to nip at. If they were mine and that happened I would reduce the pencils and add a bit of crunch and/or barley.

greysides

What I was thinking of was coccidiosis. Maybe they're a little young but watch for mucus in the dung and straining. Base Price suggestions are worth considering.