Show r rBy By Dr Ur L D LeGear V SSt S St St ie a graduate of Ontario Veterinary College 1892 work v orl Eminent i W authority on diseases diseases t f j i r poul- poul poultry s try Nationally known lee lee- X lec-X k writer and ond author THE MILK IN RAISING OAL CALVESTo CALVES VES To get good CO cows cots s ralso cm ern Is the expression e often heard mon among dairy dairy- dairymen men men That being tru true the next ques question tion Is how to raise them In my m pro pre proceeding pro proceeding article I sho showed d that cah calves es cnn can be raised ed on skim milk and that if Ir the proper method of ot feed reed reedIng feeding feeding ing was wis s 's s d d the skim milk fed Ced cow would compete with her sister who ran with the mother as a salt In lit every Cry par par- particular particular par It IS 1 nall 01 every I hundred dairy cah calves es come from cows where the milk is sold MId as whole milk The problem therefore Is how to raise the calves with the minimum amount of milk When hen you consider that a calf calC will consume around SO 50 o gallons of or whole milk a month you ou cm n soon figure figure- out what It costs to board that calf calC for tor the first six months or until weaning caning time The nation has been absorbed for years In various carious experiments to find a substitute for tor milk in cal raising Im- Im Improvements Improvements Im Improvements are arc being made right along Doth Both the tho commercial and home bome mixed calf calC meals are now quite satisfactorily used The problem of o course Is to pro produce produce I duce a food rood that ie is easily digestible that has a chemical content sJ sp ilar to milk and the necessary a d proteins Some of the materials com com- com used are ground yellow corn oat flakes or ground oats linseed me meal and skim mil milic po powder der The mixtures tures are prepared with wa water water water ter or milk nn an ani I 1 fed In the shape of Is about warm arm guels The proportion one of m l 0 o nine parts of wa a tor ter TLe Tl feeding schedule for Cor a calf calC under und this method would be about as v One OnA of daily with the milk during the third week eek and then gradually increase the gruel and cut down don on the milk mille The milk can be eliminated entirely at the end of 45 days and by that time the tho gruel will III be running about 12 lZ to 15 pounds a day Tho rho gruel diet may be eliminated at the end nd of four months it if desired as by this time lime the calf calC will ivill be eating hay and grain A mixture recommended by the V WIsconsin Is Experiment E Station consists ot of o 4 parts of ground vellow ellow corn orn 3 parts of ground oats 2 ruts Arts of wheat heat bran and andone andone andone one pal pait t of linseed oil meal This Is Isred red fed In connection with skim very milk milk light at first and gradually Increase Another method of or feeding v lIth a minimum amount of milk milk- is to give gle gl e the calf calC i a good start st on milk and then jump Immediately to grains and rough rough- rough rough-hage hage Many experiments ha have hae e been tried and are being tried to find out just when the change change hange over o should take place and ho how For Instance some breeders mend feeding w whole ole milk tor for three weeks and skim milk for tor the five weeks be- be before be before fore rore going into the grain and hay diet That is a pretty short period In my opinion although 1 i raiser of ot Holsteins tell me ho has fed liO pounds of whole milk and around JOO pounds of or skIm milk during the tha first two t months and S switched Itched to gram and roughage with th success In ill JJ cases changes In reed feed should be made gradually There Thero are those who believe elle e that no substitute for tor whole hole milk Is practicable Therefore they start with whole hole milk and gradually dilute It with water One proportion recommended is three parts of whole hole milk to one part of ot water of af after ter the first month to be continued un- un until until un until til the C calf cal H 13 is eating a s sufficient or of grain aud hayThe hay The suc success success s of this plan rests upon the ability of ot the herd owner to get the calves started early earlyon earlyon earlyon on grain and hay and then see that they eat cat It In equal amounts Powdered skim shim milk is also used for feeding cah calves es It Is dissolved In warm water and ad fed red Immediately It may bo be alternated with skim shim milk on farms where the supply of o skim milk varies The powdered Po dered milk keeps well ell and Is easy to handle The cost of powdered milk to equal pounds of skim shim milk Is about halt half what you vou can sell an equal oqual amount of whole hole milk for One pound of or powdered po milk to nine pounds or of water ater at a temperature of de- de degrees degrees de degrees grees Fahrenheit Is about right Another for tor milk is whey from the cheese factory The whey heY needs to be sterilized ap ay in a fermented condition It Is bad for tor the calf calt unless ot of course the cheese is made mide on the farm and the v hl fed ed at once Start at atthe atthe atthe atI I the end of or the third v week eek and gradually switch s the diet from whole bole milk to whey he At end of six weeks the whole milk can be dis dispensed with altogether and grain and Lay Iny substituted Cah Calves es should n ner n never er er bo ho allowed to become poor T This ls will stunt their gro growth th and retard normal norm de development l I They should have good teed reed care caro goal gool attention kept in good condition and growing every minute Legume hays are better than timothy for growing calves because of or the minerals they contain for contain I for tor making bone and muscle Alfalfa an clover hay bay must be bo fed red carefully athey athey a athey they are laxative Copyright 1930 by by Dr L D I Gear 3 S S Sl J |