A:   I would not recommend fermented feeds such as corn silage in the diets of young calves (two months of age) being fed a complete diet. The nutrient requirements of these calves is very high and intake is important. So I would feed a sweet feed that can be purchased from the feed store or mix my own. Make sure that the diet is not dry as young calves will not adapt well to dusty rations. You will need some forage in the diet and make sure the forage is a high quality forage and not something like straw. When the calves get to 300 to 400 lb you can start to add some silage to the diet.

Calves will start eating grass in a pasture when they are two to three months of age. Calves at this age will not perform well if their diet is only vegative grass pasture and perform less if the grass pasture is dormant.