Calf Management & Health

Water is important!

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Water is important! Often we pay attention to small details in our feeding management of calves and overlook “simple” things of great importance! This is the case with water, regardless of whether you manage calves in individual pens or group housing. The fundamental recommendation is simple.  Provide plenty of fresh, clean water at all times […]

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Managing

Keeping it clean!!

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Keep it clean!! Our discussions pertaining to calf management frequently focus on nutrition, milk or milk replacer, colostrum, vaccinations, feed additives…….  Rarely do we consider the impact of hygiene on our success in raising calves.   For this post, let’s consider the impact of hygiene on calf health and growth. Calving environment  –  While in utero […]

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Calf Management & Health

The Merging of Sustainability and Calf Management

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The Merging of Sustainability and Calf Management *Post contributed by Maureen Hanson How can calf management systems survive, thrive, and co-exist with other industries and the environment in the future? Their sustainability was addressed by number of speakers at the recent 2023 Smart Calf Rearing Conference in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The Merging of Sustainability and Calf […]

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Calf Management & Health

What have “autofeeders” taught me about feeding dairy calves?

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What have “autofeeders” taught me about feeding dairy calves? Most of us that have fed calves have a similar impression of “what’s normal” for feeding calves and calf behavior.  What was “normal”? We fed them twice a day. We fed two quarts (liters) per feeding. We did this because milk or milk replacer was expensive […]

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Getting Started

Hello & welcome to the calf blog

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Hi, I’m Dr. Bob James… welcome back. As we kick off the calf blog, I want to let you know a bit about the content and what format we will use over the next year. Read more…

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