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Ridgway, IL | Believe you will have better luck keeping them separate a while. Put them together a couple weeks later after they're all eating good, and the same ration and it's more apparent their health is all good
I want it to be burned into their brain to go to the bunk for food before putting two groups together. If they're not all aggressive coming to the bunk, when you put two groups together, the timid ones really get pushed down the pecking order. A calf with their head in the bunk is about a million times less likely to get sick than one not eating as well. So you need to have them conditioned to charge the bunk when you put two groups together, not stand around trying to figure out who the new friends in the pen are.
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Mixing groups of calves?
