FEEDING CALVES.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 3081, 19 April 1927, Page 8

FEEDING CALVES.

A young calf should be fed four times a day at intervals of about four j hours. The feeding should bo punctual and regular, not at any spare moment, and in a hasty fashion. The calf should bo allowed plenty of time to take its milk. A fasting calf will invariably swallow its', milk in mouthf uls, which Is bad for the calf. If fed more frequently and given its food on the well-tried maxim of "little and often," the calf will thrive much better than when fed the same quantity of milk at two meals. The feeding- vessel should be clean and rinsed with, clean, cold water after use. The milk should be warm, as from the cow. When skim or separated milk and a cream equivalent are introduced to replace part of the whole milk the prepared mixture should be made blood warm. The milk should not be boiled, nor heated, above 100 deg. Fahr. Linseed gruel should also not be boiled, but cooked at a moderately low heat to a sort of jelly. When they have been fed milk or gruel from a pail, the calves should have their noses wipe;] with a cloth, but they should not be denied the means of gratifying their natural desire to suck a peg or rail of clean wood, or the like. If denied this they will form the bad habit to suck at the ears or tail of their mates.