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Condensed and Powdered Buttermilk for Dairy Calves

Division of Dairy Husbandry, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota

ABSTRACT

On farms selling whole milk calf raising is a serious problem. The market value of whole milk under these conditions is usually so high as to practically prohibit feeding it to the calf and feeding skimmilk is likewise impracticable because of the inconvenience of separating the milk and marketing both cream and milk. Farmers under these circumstances instead of raising calves usually depend upon purchasing cows with which to maintain their herds, with the result that herd improvement is at a standstill. That a relatively large number of farmers are represented in this class is indicated by census figures which show that approximately 54 per cent of all the calves born in this country are the offspring of cows the milk of which is sold as whole milk from the farm.

Commercial calf-meals and so-called milk substitutes have been used for calf feeding for a number of years. In general, however, they have been found too expensive and in most cases also they have proved unsatisfactory except when milk feeding has been continued during the first two to four months of the life of the calf.