Show one common mistake in feeding dairy calves calves the most common mistake in feeding dairy calves from the bucket Is feeding their too much the amount that a calf should really have divided over three feeds seems so ridiculously small that most of us feel stingy about it and are tempted to add a little more to avoid being generous tit nt the tha calves expense it Is well to actually weigh tile the milk for each calf and stick to the rule many rules have been given all emphasizing the danger of overfeeding over feeding but as good a rule as tiny any Js Is one pound of milk to each ten pounds live weight A fifty pound calf therefore would ret get only live pounds of milk dally daily or two quarts it if fed twice dally daily this would be just a quart of milk tit nt a teed feed in some stables this rule Is observed so closely that the calf Is weighed every month to check up tip on the amount of milk that should be fed at no time should it a calf get more than 10 16 pounds of milk dally daily |