Weaning weight: growth at the age of weaning
Weaning weight is an animal’s live weight when it is weaned off milk, usually recorded in kilograms. Breeders often adjust it to a standard age so animals weaned at different ages can be compared fairly.
How is weaning weight recorded and compared?
Weighing at weaning shows how much a calf or lamb grew on its mother’s milk and early feed. Animals are weaned at different ages, so breeders adjust the reading to a standard age set by their recording scheme, using a formula based on the animal’s age and its weight on the weighing day. Note the weigh date, the ear tag and the scale used, and later comparisons stay fair.
Questions from the farm
Why adjust weaning weight to a standard age?
Animals weaned at different ages differ in weight partly because of age alone, so the adjusted figure gives a fairer comparison.
How HerdMobile helps
Bring your animals, feed stocks and farm accounts together on your Android phone. HerdMobile keeps your daily work moving offline: record events, compare feed quantities and follow sales and payments in one place. Use your own feeds and herd information to prepare a ration, then keep a backup file under your control.
HerdMobile keeps each weight with its date and animal, so you can compare weaning weights from several years side by side.
