GRASS FOR CALVES.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXXII, Issue 2802, 18 November 1931, Page 6

GRASS FOR CALVES.

SHORT FEED IS BEST. Grass for calves must be short, green and leafy. The calves should have the run of a fair-sized paddock, where they can always get a good picking of young grass, or, if only pnall paddocks :trc available, they should be regularly shifted from field to field. Calves must not be allowed to graze in a paddock together with pigs or in a paddock that has been an old pig run at one time, unless the paddock has been well ploughed, limed, cultivated and again sown down in grass. The grazing of calves in old pig runs, especially where the land is low-lying and poorly drained, has caused the deaths of large numbers of calves in New Zealand and Australia. Calves must not be pastured on dry, fibrous grass or where cocksfoot has been allowed to go to seed. This also npnlies to all classes of stock at any period of their lives, but especially to animals up to two years of age. All calf runs must be kept clean of all sorts of rubbish, such as old clothes, boots, sacking and empty tins, especially empty paint tins. Calves are often killed by eating such rubbish or licking old tins. Diseased animals should never be allowed to graze with young cattle. ,o