Nutrition of the milk-fed calf

Calcium in the Nutrition of the Fattening Calf Calcium in the Nutrition of the Fattening Calf

The milk requirements of the newborn calf.

The relationship between milk intake and live-weight gain of the very young calf, when usually its sole diet is whole milk, has not been studied in the past in detail. It is clear from our earlier experiments that, when calves are removed from their dams at birth, given not more than 6 pt. of colostrum and then bucket-fed, the growth curve during the first 3 weeks of life tends to be slightly c...

Digestibility and blood parameters in the preruminant calf fed a clotting or a nonclotting milk replacer.

Eight male Holstein calves 7 to 10 d of age were fed a milk replacer containing a skim milk powder subjected to low-temperature drying either with or without addition of an oxalate-NaOH buffer known to prevent curd formation. The calves were used in a completely randomized design to study the effect of milk clotting on digestibility and blood parameters. Plasma glucose and plasma insulin were s...

Aspects of protein quality in calf nutrition. Problems and possibilities of milk protein substitutes.

T h e high cost of milk proteins limits the profits of veal production. The situation is made worse by an increasing demand for beef. For this reason the rearing of calves for veal production is expected to decline to one-third within the next 10 years. One method of solving some of these problems would be the partial or total replacement of milk proteins with suitable substitutes. This course ...

Calf Nutrition and Colostrum Management

Calf mortality is highest during the first six months of life. Added to this is the losses to the industry caused by around 50,000 breeding cows (1.4% of the U.K total) dying at calving, mainly as a result of dystocia. Scouring is the most common disease in young calves and, as a result, is the greatest single cause of death in calves, accounting for almost 50% of all calf deaths. Scouring in c...