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Calf milk replacer vs powdered milk.
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<blockquote data-quote="greggy" data-source="post: 1613162" data-attributes="member: 38479"><p>I never let them drink water from a teat, they have to do that from a bucket or trough.</p><p></p><p>The trick is, to get them eating and develop rumen asap, you can only do that by not overfeeding milk, unless you like feeding them milk and the work and cost.</p><p></p><p>At the same time, it prob really helps some of them.</p><p></p><p>I have some that were basically onto hay diet when I got them, they were a bit small and pot bellied, got a month of milk twice daily into them with good quality hay and pellet, and are filling nicely with the pot belly look going or gone.</p><p></p><p>I will see how this last group go, as have been giving the 2 daily milk feeds instead of the once the other group had. There are some beefy little calves in there in prior group, I think it would be hard to out perform them, they are vigourous eaters of anything dished up. By far much better than this twice a day milk group, but it may come down to my lack of time and some getting ill, it is easy to get side tracked....in other words, it is not a controlled study <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😀" title="Grinning face :grinning:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" data-shortname=":grinning:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greggy, post: 1613162, member: 38479"] I never let them drink water from a teat, they have to do that from a bucket or trough. The trick is, to get them eating and develop rumen asap, you can only do that by not overfeeding milk, unless you like feeding them milk and the work and cost. At the same time, it prob really helps some of them. I have some that were basically onto hay diet when I got them, they were a bit small and pot bellied, got a month of milk twice daily into them with good quality hay and pellet, and are filling nicely with the pot belly look going or gone. I will see how this last group go, as have been giving the 2 daily milk feeds instead of the once the other group had. There are some beefy little calves in there in prior group, I think it would be hard to out perform them, they are vigourous eaters of anything dished up. By far much better than this twice a day milk group, but it may come down to my lack of time and some getting ill, it is easy to get side tracked....in other words, it is not a controlled study 😀 [/QUOTE]
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