Central Saskatchewan Canada | Lb94 - 11/13/2024 17:06
I always heard about this "fenceline weaning" but until this year i always took calves to the pasture at my old house when we still owned it which was 1 mile away so calves couldn't hear the cows bawl and vice versa. Caught some calves while cows were on the adjacent paddock to the lot and by the time i weaned them still had maybe 2 or 3 more days of grass in that paddock before they got moved onto the next paddock. I feel like fenceline weaning was even more stressful because the cows just stand there and bawl at their calves, calves just stand their and bawl at their moms. Felt like it always went better when they were taken far enough away from one another they can't hear them.
You feel a mile is far enough? Our cows and calves can hear each other for many miles. We lock cows and calves up in corrals when we wean. 3-4 days later cows are trailed back out to pasture. |
Weaning
