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Controlled Experiments on the Value of Supplementary Vitamins for Young Dairy Calves

Department of Animal Husbandry, Cornell University

ABSTRACT

Studies are reported involving approximately sixty heifer calves of various dairy breeds, largely Holsteins, which show that supplementing a normal diet with capsules or tablets containing vitamins A, D, and E, ascorbic acid, and several of the B-vitamins did not reduce the incidence or severity of scours. Extra vitamins in the amounts fed had no certain effect on the rate of growth or the general appearance of the calves during the early months of life. Under the feeding and management conditions involved, there was no advantage to calves from adding extra vitamins to the normal ration.