09/22/07, 08:59 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: AR
Posts: 2,260
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Originally Posted by Oxankle
I have used the Jeffers calf weaning devices. The plastic one works, but you have to be careful that you get it on tight and you have to watch the calf to see that it stays in. On a larger calf they can come off and be lost.
Jeffers also sells a metal calf weaner for about $6.50 that is a nose ring. It is made just like a bull ring with a stainless, pronged piece of curved metal riveted to it. They all work the same, but the metal one pierces the septum and will not come out and be lost.
Leave either one in for at least a couple of months. If you remove them too soon the calf may resume sucking if the cow is available. I had one that lost the plastic nosepiece and the cow finally kicked him off a week or so before the next calf. This is the same silly cow that allows thieves to get their fill.
Ox
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if i had a cow like that i would buy bottle calfs 2 at a eime
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