AN S 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Weaning, Polypropylene
17 Apr 2019
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Identify the benefits of early weaning practices: describe and defined fence line weaning practices, discuss potential drawbacks of creep feeding. Fence line weaning: calves removed but allowed to hear, see and smell dams, fence separation, usually pasture, calves need to know water source (consider yearling or cow in pen, protein supplementation depends on forage quality. Advantages of fence line weaning: calf behavior, less walking, bawling (sdsu,2005, calf performance. Greater growth at 2 and 10 weeks post weaning (uc davis, 2003: feed quality dependent, calf health. Immunity acquisition same for both groups (sdsu,2005: sdsu extension specialists report movements of fenceline weaned calves were more like their non-weaned counterparts in a control group, davis researchers find. In the study in table 1, fence-line weaned calves kept up with their un-weaned counterparts early on, but slowed down late in weaning. In contrast, conventionally weaned calves performed poorly from the start.
