The I-29 Extension Dairy Consortium's recent educational effort titled Raising Your Best Calf Ever updated calf raisers on the key components of raising dairy calves. It started with a "Boots on the ...
Sometimes a calf loses its mother or has a mother that won’t accept it or can’t feed it. Many ranchers have raised calves on bottles. It might be an orphan or a twin—and the mother doesn’t have enough ...
DECORAH, Iowa — With feeder calves bringing $1,800, Eric Smith is focusing on commercial calves. He had been a cooperator herd for seed stock breeders but backed off from that with high cattle prices.