What if you had a crystal ball to help you choose the best nutrition program to achieve the optimal outcomes for your calves?

AD LIB feeding of milk allows the calf to consume more milk when compared to a conventional milk-feeding programme for calves (bucket-feeding twice daily at a total of 10pc of bodyweight). However, ...

Giving pre-weaned calves access to as much calf milk replacer as their appetites demand has transformed the performance of Scottish dairy farmer Rory Christie’s heifer replacements. Dourie Farming Co, ...

WITH many dairy farmers over quota this spring, large amounts of milk will be fed to calves. Many experiments were done in the past, adding probiotics to milk for calf feeding with an average 5% ...

The higher cost of milk replacer has made it more expensive to feed young dairy calves recently. But as feed costs have increased, so has the value of young calves, with day-old calves selling for ...

My Friesian cross has delivered a good-looking and healthy calf. Since I am now retired, I want to focus on dairy farming. This is the first calf in my farm, kindly educate me on how best to take care ...

Most heifer calves being reared on commercial dairy units in the UK, need more milk if they are to hit targets for optimal health and lifetime productivity. That was the overwhelming result from new ...

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Providing calves a suitable environment for them and rearing them with optimum performance take skill and precision, writes independent ruminant nutritonist Brian Reidy. Providing calves a suitable ...