Every year, weaning time for calves is a stress on people and cattle. On our ranch, we started fenceline weaning 35 years ago—separating the cows and calves but putting them in adjacent pens or ...

Anti-suckling nose flaps could be the solution to reducing stress at weaning, according to new research. Speaking at the British Society of Animal Science Conference in Nottingham, Writtle College ...

Following the summer months, cattle producers must wean calves from their mother’s in order to transition the calves to a diet that helps them develop before being sent to a feed yard for finishing.

Weaning is a stressful time for calves. There are social stresses associated with removal from the dam and disrupting social hierarchy, physical stresses of transportation and the marketing system, ...

In terms of weaning, cattle ranchers have a plethora of low-stress methods and options that they can utilize on their cattle operation. When it comes to the separation of the calf from the cow, less ...

Now is a good time to wean calves, and producers should select the weaning method that best fits their operation, according to North Dakota State University Extension livestock specialists. For the ...

On many ranches and farms that raise cows, conventional wisdom holds that calves should be separated from their mothers as quickly and cleanly as possible. Though calves naturally wean themselves ...

For those producers who have a defined spring calving season, weaning the calf crop is just around the corner. There is a sizable amount of data and literature that demonstrates preconditioning calves ...

On most beef farms and ranches, calves are weaned from their mother when they’re around six months old. The tiny animals are introduced to a new diet, a new environment, and they have to learn new ...

Evidence indicates that allowing beef calves to stay in the maternal herd beyond the age of natural weaning promotes animal welfare and may enhance the cows' natural reproductive potential.

Following the summer months cattle producers must wean calves from their mother’s in order to transition the calves to a diet that helps them develop before being sent to a feed yard for finishing.