CALVES AND SOUR MILK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19291, 1 April 1926, Page 14

CALVES AND SOUR MILK.

RISK OF SUDDEN CHANGE. The Dairy, an English paper, says: In feeding it has been found that it is not a bad plan to change the calf from sweet to sour milk if it has to be reared during the warm season of the year, when milk is apt to sour suddenly. Calves that are fed on sour milk do as well as those fed on sweet milk, and are less liable to some of the common troubles of «oung calfhood., The risk lies in sudden changes from sweet to sour rnilk, and vice versa. Any sudden change is liable to upset the digestive system, and to bring on scours. The removal of the cream from the milk fed to calves can be compensated for by replacing it with flax-seed jelly. Half a tea-cup of the jelly should be added to the milk at each time of feeding, the quantity beir.g gradually increased until apint is fed i n the skim niilk twice daily. The jelly is quite easily made by boiling a pound of whole flax seed or linseed in ■water until a thick paste is formed. This need not be sprained; but mnst be kept m a cold place until used. Calves should ■Jso he taught to eat as soon as possible my.'being kept by them, and a little middlings being given daily from a shallow trough. The ground grain is fed to calves in the milk; the grain should bo added to the milk after it has been poured into a pnil, as it will be found to mix better than when the milk is poured on the grain.