ERRORS IN CALF-BREEDING.

Northern Advocate, 21 January 1888, Page 4

ERRORS IN CALF-BREEDING.

Errors are common in the management of calves When first taken

from the cow and given skim milk they are apt to be fed too heavily, because most people have an idea that skim milk is much less nourishing: than that which retains the cream. So far as fattening is concerned this is true, but the elements of growth are nearly all retained in skim milk. The calf's stomach is thus overloaded with cold milk, and it is this which gives it the scoutf. Warming the milk to blood heat and adding an egg will stop almost any case of scours. The second evil in calf -breeding is stopping the ration too soon. A small ration o* sour milk — say two or three* anart&.v%m day— is ajjrofitable fwed /o^^tfpUPP until it is eight or nijjt&G^MF dl&. After three or fo'ir mouths it will prefer its milk sour, and it is Dt=t it should, to prevent danger of learning to euck its mother or other cows.