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Birth to 3 days old
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Colostrum
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3 days to 38 days
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Tend-R-Leen® milk replacer
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25 pounds
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Free choice Tend-R-Leen®
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50 pounds
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Both heifer and bull calves can be raised
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Stage 2
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39 days to 120 days old
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Tend-R-Leen® Grower Formula:
2 lbs./hd/day
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180 pounds
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Free choice dry whole shell corn
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At 120 days the steer will weigh approximately
350 lbs.
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Stage 3
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120 days to finish
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Tend-R-Leen® Ultra Finisher
1 1/2 lbs./hd/day
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457 pounds
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Free choice dry whole shell corn
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Free choice trace mineral salt
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Stage 1
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Birth to 3 days old
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Colostrum
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3 days to 38 days
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Tend-R-Leen® milk replacer
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25 pounds
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Free choice Tend-R-Leen®
calf starter
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50 pounds
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Both heifer and bull calves can be raised
together until 2 months of age
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Stage 2
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39 days to 120 days old
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Tend-R-Leen® Grower Formula:
2 lbs./hd/day
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180 pounds
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Free choice dry whole shell corn
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At 120 days the steer will weigh approximately
350 lbs.
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Stage 3
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120 days to finish
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Tend-R-Leen® Ultra Finisher
1 1/2 lbs./hd/day
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457 pounds
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Free choice dry whole shell corn
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Free choice trace mineral salt
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Stage 1
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Birth to 3 days old
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Colostrum
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3 days to 38 days
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Tend-R-Leen® milk replacer
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25 pounds
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Free choice Tend-R-Leen®
calf starter
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50 pounds
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Both heifer and bull calves can be raised
together until 2 months of age
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Stage 2
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39 days to 120 days old
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Tend-R-Leen® Grower Formula:
2 lbs./hd/day
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180 pounds
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Free choice dry whole shell corn
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At 120 days the steer will weigh approximately
350 lbs.
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Stage 3
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120 days to finish
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Tend-R-Leen® Ultra Finisher
1 1/2 lbs./hd/day
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457 pounds
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Free choice dry whole shell corn
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Free choice trace mineral salt
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New
emphasis on subcutaneous
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Excerpts
taken from: Beef Today 10/24/02, by Holly Foster
Just when you thought you had been
hitting the bull’s eye when it came to administering injectable health
products, you’re reading and hearing that may not be the case.
It isn’t that producers have been doing things wrong—in fact, quite the
opposite. The 2000 National Beef Quality Audit (BQA) showed that 97.5% of top
sirloin butts are free of injection-site lesions, almost a 20% reduction in
incidence from the low of 78.7%. Producers should be congratulated for their
proactive approach in addressing this quality issue.
However, advances in packaging technology
and new ways to utilize the chuck seem to have created a new problem and a new
target. Product that is sold in modified atmospheric packaging (a combination
of oxygen and carbon dioxide to prolong bloom) has been showing up with green
injection- site lesions.
Preliminary studies are currently being conducted to determine just what in
the animal health products is reacting with the oxygen and carbon dioxide to
create the green color, but much of the problem can be avoided by simply using
subcutaneous (SubQ) animal injections whenever possible. If an animal health
product is being used that only allows for intramuscular injections, then you
need to administer it as far forward on an animal’s neck as possible.
“There has never been a time when giving SubQ injections has been more
necessary,” says Dee Griffin, DVM with the University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Great Plains Veterinary Education Center. “As an industry, we have to place
enough pressure on pharmaceutical companies and funding agencies to research
products that allow us to keep injections out of the muscle.”
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