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3 wk old Jersey calf with shaking legs- help!
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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 954231" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>The milk replacer should be 20% protein and 20% fat and be from milk and milk by-products not soy. If you aren;t going to feed any grain you will need to keep them on milk replacer till they're 6-7 months old. Their digestive system isn;t functioning well enough to get the nutrition they need from just grass until they're around that age. Simply put, and this applies to the soy based milk replacers too, they could starve to death with a full belly. Milk from the store doesn;t have adequate nutrition for a healthy calf either. Whole milk straight from the cow does and the non-soy based milk replacers do. That's why they are formulated the way they are. I know it's hard to belief that the folks making the milk replacer would have a more thorough knpwledge of calf nutrition then someone just starting out raising calves, or even someone that's been doing it for 20 years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 954231, member: 34"] The milk replacer should be 20% protein and 20% fat and be from milk and milk by-products not soy. If you aren;t going to feed any grain you will need to keep them on milk replacer till they're 6-7 months old. Their digestive system isn;t functioning well enough to get the nutrition they need from just grass until they're around that age. Simply put, and this applies to the soy based milk replacers too, they could starve to death with a full belly. Milk from the store doesn;t have adequate nutrition for a healthy calf either. Whole milk straight from the cow does and the non-soy based milk replacers do. That's why they are formulated the way they are. I know it's hard to belief that the folks making the milk replacer would have a more thorough knpwledge of calf nutrition then someone just starting out raising calves, or even someone that's been doing it for 20 years. [/QUOTE]
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