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You can start to place grain out for a calf after the first week of age, but they will only take a few mouth fulls each day for the first few weeks. Around 45 to 50 days old they should be actively eating grain.
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∙ 11y agoWhen: when the calf reaches around 3 to 4 months of age
How: decrease the amount of milk the calf gets at each feeding until you are feeding the calf mostly water from the bottle, and also decrease the amount of feedings per week to the point where you don't need to feed the calf from the bottle anymore.
It also helps to hand feed the calf a bit of calf starter grain immediately after it finishes its bottle and still wants to suck. It might not swallow much but a little bit of grain helps its stomach develop sooner. Provide a bucket of water. If the calf eats grain you can wean it as early as 2 months, but three months is better and even later if it is really cold. You can stop feeding milk all of a sudden for older calves that eat a lot of grain, or feed milk only once a day for a while, or reduce each feeding. The key is making sure the calves eat grain and giving them a lot more to make up for the milk.
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