If you have a lawn, garden, flower, vegetable, tree, shrub, bug, grub, or insect question, Fond du Lac County Certified Master Gardener volunteers are available to help through the growing season (April to October). We will review your concern and email our information and recommendations to you. Because we are working safely from home this year, kindly allow up to several days for us to research and respond with an evidence-based answer.
Please submit your question through this Google form. Our
A calf’s successful transition from a milk-based diet to a diet of grain and forages requires proper rumen development. However, rumen development is a process that takes time. Regardless of how much milk one is feeding calves or what age they are at weaning time, if the rumen is not ready, calves are going to struggle after weaning. Failure to prepare the rumen can stall calf growth or put calves at greater risk for illness because of nutritional stress. Both situations will cost real mon
