Feeding Table For Heifer Calves

Northern Advocate, 30 September 1943, Page 5

Feeding Table For Heifer Calves

According to many authorities, there is a decrease in the number of Northland heifer calves being saved this year. Farmers should therefore do their utmost to rear as many heifer calves as possible. In past seasons many calves have been lost through faulty feeding. Here is a table approved by authorities: — A"e of Whole Skim Linseed calf milk milk .jelly or (days) (pints) (pints) crushed oats

12 The above amounts are for averagesized calves. Smaller animals should be given a little less and larger calves a little more. New milk can be fed up to three weeks il' desired and halt a pint ol lime water added to each feed is a good practice. After weaning, the feeding of linseed meal and crushed oats should be continued for a week or two. Calves should be kept in fresh paddocks, as land used year after year becomes contaminated with parasites, to which the calves fall easy prey. After-care of the calves is important and money expended on the small ration of concentrates and hay, to be distributed to calves when feed is short, is a splendid investment.

2 (clams’ milk) 2 >'4 — — 4 (Colostrum) 2 3 ,4 — — G 3 — — 8 3 — — 10 2lb l'/4 \\ 12 IV2 3 1 'r, 14 1 4 ‘A 16 1 4Y 2 1 18 Vi 5Vt l 20 6 11/2 (weeks) 4 9 2 5 10 2 V2 G — 10 2% 7 — 10 2»A 8 — 10 2 Vi 9 — 12 3 10 —• 12 3 11 — 123