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Comparison of Rations for Dairy Calves

Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station

Abstract

Where there is an abundance of skim milk for calf feeding, the raising of vigorous dairy calves is relatively simple. Various experiments have shown clearly that as thrifty calves can be raised when changed to skim milk at but a few weeks of age as those which are fed whole milk until weaning time. However, when a liberal supply of skim milk is not at hand, the problem is a more complicated one.

Over increasing areas of our country dairymen do not have an abundance of skim milk for feeding their calves. They may sell cream to the creamery, but may wish to use a considerable part of the skim milk for feeding swine or poultry. In large districts dairymen now sell their milk to condenseries or ship it to city markets, thus having no skim milk whatsoever available. In cheese-producing districts plenty of whey is available for calf feeding, but such poor results have been secured by most farmers with this dairy by-product that probably the majority make no attempt to use it for this purpose.