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The Optimum Quantity of Skimmilk for Calf Feeding

Untied States Dairy Division Experiment Station, Beltsville, Maryland

ABSTRACT

The experiment on calf feeding reported below was conducted at the Dairy Division Experiment Farm, Beltsville, Maryland, and had for its object, first to find out the quantity of skimmilk which would give the best results as regards gains in weight and economy of gains; second to find out if feeding large quantities would cause scours.

There were four calves in each group, balanced as nearly as possible with reference to breed and body weight at birth. One group was given a daily ration, at the rate of
of the body weight, the quantity being regulated by body weights taken every ten days. Two other groups were fed at the rate of
and
of their body weights and the fourth group was given all the milk the calves would drink, twice a day. Each calf received its mother's milk until it was ten days old. The change to skimmilk was then made gradually and at the age of fifteen days the calf was on an entire skimmilk ration.