calf feeding machine

Topside with the saved time of not feeding that gives the hired hand more time to WATCH THEM....I set out there a lot just watching ...when they first stand up you can learn alot or when one starts running.. and one does not ..IF THE HIRED HAND would use the freed up time that way I know it will pay for itself

I think it would be very convenient if you had a lot of calves. It would only be a problem if the caretaker thought it meant he was free from paying attention to the calves.

Those tag feeders don't work, because it doesn't take the dominant cows long to figure out they can wait for a low status cow to get her grain and then push her out of the way. So the low status cows end up with none, while the dominant cows get double or triple rations.

i went to a farm the other day we are going to start buy all his bulls and that guy had it and i would love to have one we have 10 bulls right now that are about 2 weeks old and it would be so much easier if we had one he said his was 15 years old and he paid 2500 for it 15 years ago. he should me how it works and it seems to work really well this would free up some time. we rise are calf up to weaning and then we sell them to another guy he buys all he can get

Mironsfarm ....did you get the MFG. of his

Sometimes it angers us. We have hundreds of cows I know, but we actually do care for them the best we can, and it is not unusual to get some people who buy the bull-calfs off us and then not want to take care of them.

They come back to the farm and claim "all five are blowing the crap out of their hineys", and really want to know how to make them better. So we tell them what they need to get, and what they need to do to keep the little calfs alive. That is about the time they say. "Oh we don't believe in antibiotics", or some other similar statement. I am sure they go back home and say they should have never bought calfs off a big dairy farm that were "diseased."

We tend not to sell calves to those people any more though. The same goes for the people that balk over a 2 month old bull-calf with a $125 dollar purchase price. Apparently they have no idea what a bag of calf-starter costs today!

By the way, after watching other dairy farmers really get ahead by having a progressive calf management style, we are starting to invest in that aspect of dairy farming. I admit that we are slow on the uptake, having invested in equipment, milking cow barns, and a really nice milking parlor, but now its time to invest in the calf side of things. I doubt we will get Calf Machines soon, but there is a major shift at the farm to consider how calfs and profitability coincide!