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  1. When should kids be weaned from their mother? Updated: November 09, 2011
  2. How long does it take for a beef cow to dry up after separating the calf, and will her milk production resume if she is put on a winter hay ration and/or the calf is returned to her? Updated: November 14, 2010
  3. We wean our calves at 6 months, keeping them penned up for a month before we turn them back out in the same pasture with their mothers. Last year, we had a steer that would nurse his dam when she calved the following spring. She was agreeable, even with him running off the current new calf. We ended up selling this steer early to get rid of him. Would there be any advantage to keeping the calves penned up more than two months? Or was this just an individual occurrance of an opportunistic steer? Updated: October 28, 2008
  4. What are some recommendations for making the weaning transition period easier for freshly weaned calves? Updated: March 06, 2008
  5. Will a cow wean a calf on her own and, if so, what effect will this have on her? Updated: February 26, 2008
  6. We have a problem in weaning our yearlings in that we have only two pastures that are relatively close to each other. Both pastures are bordered by a shaky old barbed-wire fence and a single strand of hot wire. While this will tend to keep the whole herd in most of the time, it will not keep either the cows or the yearlings in when they are less than a mile apart and can hear each other bawling. I know there has been recent research that shows weaning yearlings within the same pasture for a few days will take away much of the stress, but the calves are still usually taken away to a distant pasture. Would it be possible for us to do this within the same pasture for, say, two weeks till the cows went dry and then turn the calves back out? Updated: February 26, 2008

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