The feeding of milk once daily to early weaned calves

Khouri, R.H.

doi:10.1080/00288233.1969.10421215

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“…Experiments with whole milk (Owen, Plum and Harris, 1965;Khouri, 1969) and with milk substitutes (Burt, 1968;Ackerman, Thomas, Thayne and Butcher, 1969) have shown little difference in the performance of calves given limited quantities of these diets either once or twice daily. The advantages of once-daily feeding are the reduction in labour costs and the convenience of feeding at a particular time which does not clash with periods of peak labour requirements such as milking time.…”

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Rearing of dairy cattle 1. Type and level of milk substitute offered once daily to calves

Leaver¹,

Yarrow²

1972

Anim. Sci.

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A simple feeding system for British Friesian dairy female calves was examined. It involved once-daily feeding of a fixed amount of milk substitute to calves from 5 to 32 days of age. A comparison was made between low-fat and high-fat milk substitutes each offered at three levels of feeding. Performance was measured for a further 28 days after weaning. There was a greater incidence of nutritional scours in calves given the low-fat diets and also in those at higher levels of feeding. Live-weight gain to weaning and to 60 days was greater on the high-fat diets and at the higher levels of feeding. Intakes of concentrates, hay and water were little affected by type or level of milk-substitute feeding. Total feed costs over the 8-week period were greater for the high-fat diets and for the higher levels of feeding, but feed costs/kg live-weight gain were similar for the lowand high-fat diets. The results indicate that low levels of a high-fat milk substitute should be offered when using a once-daily feeding system in order to ensure a low incidence of nutritional scours and relatively low feed costs.

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Rearing of dairy cattle 1. Type and level of milk substitute offered once daily to calves

Leaver¹,

Yarrow²

1972

Anim. Sci.

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The effect of giving 11 or 14 feeds of milk substitute per week to early-weaned calves

Boucque¹,

Buysse²,

Cottyn³

1971

Anim. Sci.

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SUMMARYTwo rearing experiments were carried out to study the effect of omitting three feeds per week from an early-weaning system on the performance of 110 male calves. From the third week the calves in the experimental groups received only one feed of milk substitute on Saturdays, at 11.00 hr; on Sundays they received no milk substitute at all; from Monday to Friday they were fed twice daily. The animals in the control groups received milk substitute twice daily during the 7 days of the week, quantity per feed being the same as for the experimental groups.The calves were weaned at 8 weeks in experiment 1 and at 5 weeks in experiment 2.In both experiments the calves in the control group had a significantly higher daily gain than the experimental calves during the third to the fifth weeks. From 6 to 16 weeks arid for the experiment as a whole no significant difference in weight gain or feed intake were observed. The omission of three feeds per week offered considerable advantages in the saving of labour and convenience of management.

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Performance of calves fed milk replacers containing partially delactosed whey powder

Donnelly¹,

Norton²,

Dean³

1977

New Zealand Journal of Experimental Agriculture

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The feeding of milk once daily to early weaned calves

Cited by 7 publications

References 8 publications

Rearing of dairy cattle 1. Type and level of milk substitute offered once daily to calves

Rearing of dairy cattle 1. Type and level of milk substitute offered once daily to calves

The effect of giving 11 or 14 feeds of milk substitute per week to early-weaned calves

Performance of calves fed milk replacers containing partially delactosed whey powder

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