We have all learned a lot this week about caring for our new calf. We bottle feed him two times each day. Right now he is drinking 10 pints each day, split up between the two feedings. We also give him some sweet feed, which is in a pellet form. We are using Calf Manna. [...]
Yesterday, we got a calf for our daughter’s 4H bucket calf project.
He is a week old Holstein calf. He was pretty tramatized by the trip to our house (about half a mile), but this morning he seems to be feeling much better and ate well from the bottle. She hasn’t figured out what to [...]
My daughter signed up to do a bottle calf in 4H this year. Although we live on some land in the country, we did not have any outbuildings suitable for animals. We did, however, have a compost bin. Since we did not use the compost bin, my husband decided to take it apart and use [...]
