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Show Young Calves Thrive on Skim Milk, Hay and Grain Young calves will usually begin to nibble at grain and hay when they ars between thirty and forty days old. These feeds should be placed available avail-able to calves at this age. As long as the calves are getting a liberal supply of skim milk and have access to good quality legume hay, the grain mixture may be composed of equal parts of whole corn and oats, or barley may be Included. At forty days of age j calves will be eating about one-half pound each of grain and hay daily. I This amount should gradually be increased in-creased to where they are getting about four pounds of grain and three pounds of hay at one hundred eighty-days eighty-days of age In addition to which they should get from sixteen to eighteen pounds of skim milk daily. |