Jun 18, 2026 · 7 min · 7 segments
Can you really add 100 pounds to your calf weights at weaning? Daryl, Trevor, and Twain sit down to dig into the real numbers behind weaning weight gains — and lay out exactly what it takes to get…
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Trevor GreenfieldHostDaryl PasquitzHostDaryl, you were saying you had a customer once claim he got a hundred pound increase in weaning weights.
Do you believe that? I don't know.
That sounds like a stretch.
We get guys that have been fighting issues, challenges, maybe it's environment or nutrition supplement challenges that whatever combination of factors they ended up having, they end up having very lightweight calves and they get that fixed and they supplement well, they improve digestion on the cattle and they're getting the cow ticking at maximum performance.
And they've seen, it's not uncommon to see them go up a long ways, even up as high as 100 pounds.
While that isn't necessarily what everybody sees, it's often we're seeing, you know, 40 or 50 pound increases.
But you can make dramatic improvements through a number of factors, can't you?
Absolutely.
Yeah, there's a lot of factors at play to get 100 pound increase in weaning weights, like you're saying.
And you probably got to have a good year along with it.
But what we see with Rheomax on average, a 10 to 40 pound increase in weaning weights fairly consistently.
And we're just going to kind of unpack a few of the different things that we, the reasons behind those numbers.
Daryl, you were saying you had a customer once claim he got a hundred pound increase in weaning weights.
Do you believe that? I don't know.
That sounds like a stretch.
We get guys that have been fighting issues, challenges, maybe it's environment or nutrition supplement challenges that whatever combination of factors they ended up having, they end up having very lightweight calves and they get that fixed and they supplement well, they improve digestion on the cattle and they're getting the cow ticking at maximum performance.
And they've seen, it's not uncommon to see them go up a long ways, even up as high as 100 pounds.
While that isn't necessarily what everybody sees, it's often we're seeing, you know, 40 or 50 pound increases.
But you can make dramatic improvements through a number of factors, can't you?
Absolutely.
Yeah, there's a lot of factors at play to get 100 pound increase in weaning weights, like you're saying.
And you probably got to have a good year along with it.
But what we see with Rheomax on average, a 10 to 40 pound increase in weaning weights fairly consistently.
And we're just going to kind of unpack a few of the different things that we, the reasons behind those numbers.
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