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Studies on the rearing of calves weaned from milk between two and four weeks of age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2016

T. R. Preston
T. R. Preston*
Affiliation:
The Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn Aberdeenshire
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To wean calves early and then feed them dry meal, hay and water is thought to have a number of advantages over more conventional methods of calf rearing. These advantages include: a considerable saving of milk or milk substitutes, an early build-up of the microbial population of the rumen (thus permitting the use of simple inexpensive foods), and the saving of labour concomitant with early weaning.

Accordingly, a number of small experiments were set up to test the practicability of early weaning, the effect of different dry feeds and of a variety of types of flooring for calf pens.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production , Volume 1956 , 1956 , pp. 67 - 77
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1956

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