- Feed calves – start mixing milk no earlier than 4:30pm
- Feed bank barn calves and get milk replacer
- Mix milk, fill bottles and fill water buckets
- On very cold days, fill a bucket with hot water for thawing calf buckets
- Rinse all equipment used for milk replacer (milk replacer bucket, mixing barrel, drill mixer)
- Feed milk bottles
- Distribute to hutches first
- White clothespins get milk in the evening only
- Yellow or Orange clothespins get 4 pint bottles, others get 5 pint bottles
- Blue and Green clothespins do not get milk
- Feed bull pen calves
- Return to hutches and help any calves that didn’t drink completely
- Distribute to hutches first
- Top off hutch water buckets – older calves need a full bucket, younger calves half bucket is usually enough
- Feed grain in calf barn – one scoop per calf
- Refill grain buckets for weaned calves – light blue clothespins get sweet unique and dark blue clothespin calves get legendairy pellets
- Give clavamox pills to calves that are being treated – purple or red clothespins, also noted in Slack and on the feeding board
- Wash bottles and all equipment
- Rinse with warm water to remove all foreign material. Note especially that nipples need to be rinsed and scrubbed to remove saliva, milk, and any other substances
- Wash bottles, nipples and pill guns in hot water using some dish detergent and a 1/3 scoop of chlorine
- Use wash water to clean buckets and milk mixer
- Set bottles and nipples to dry. Shake excess water off of nipples.
- Clean freestalls in milking barn using the rake
- Push feed – milking cows, dry cows, heifers
Evening Chores Procedure
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