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Questions for Calves & Heifers
- What is the ideal age for a heifer to calve the first time?
- How much colostrum should be fed to the new born calf?
- We would like to build a new calf barn for our calf nursery. Ehat do you think of the solar barns. Does the floor need to be cement or will dirt be fi...
- We operate a calf nursey currently from calf hutches. The farm we raise for had another grower that is no longer going to be providing this service. W...
- Can Neomycin-Terramycin in milk replacer help prevent unknown respirtory diseases in calves?
- Been putting together a heifer contract. Any information would be helpful. Printed Dave's contract heifer raising thing but some of it didn't print of...
- dose leting calves drink as much warm water as thay want make grow better.I think so.Day one to 60 days old.
- Do cows have taste buds? If so--where?
- How much UIP/CP does Calves and Heifers ?
- we bought 15 hd of holstein calves. 5 died within the first 11/2 weeks. our local vet said crypto. we would like to continue to raise bottle calves bu...
- does anyone know a good site to connect with other dairy farms?
- Does vitamin C works for calf nutrition ? (if we add vitamin C to Calf Starter)
- Is it ok to use ground hay (passed through a hammer mill 1" screen) in a complete calf starter?
- Is a textured calf starter (Steam rolled grains) better than a pelleted one. It has been suggested to me that calves may eat more of a pelleted rati...
- i would like a ration for feeding baby bull calves from three days to 250 pounds. thank you.
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I posted a question about Vitamin Toxicity in 1000# heifers. I wish to know Vitamin D toxicity, not E like I posted last night. Sorry - it w... - Are there any potential drawbacks to feeding calves once per day as opposed to the traditional twice per day? Is there any research on this issue? W...
- Is there any drawback to weaning calves at 4 weeks of age if their grain consumption in good (4lb/day) and thus it can reasonably be assumed that thei...
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I am doing a science fair project on the effects of different feeds on a heifer. I would like to know if different feeds effect a heifer's w... - are antiserums efective in preventing and combating e. coli scours in one to two week old calves. thank you