A survey of northern Victorian dairy farmers to investigate dairy calf management: colostrum feeding and management

Colostrum management for dairy calves.

Colostrum management is the single most important management factor in determining calf health and survival. Unfortunately, a significant proportion of North American dairy calves suffer from failure of passive transfer of antibodies from colostrum, contributing to excessively high preweaning mortality rates and other short- and long-term losses associated with animal health, welfare, and produ...

Feeding the Newborn Dairy Calf

Dairy Worker Training in Newborn Calf Management

Dairy calf death rates from birth to weaning approximate 8 to 10% in the US. Stillbirths on dairies, measured as calves dead at delivery or within the first 24 to 48 hours after delivery, are less closely monitored, but are estimated between 6 and 12%. Numerous factors influence calf health and survival, but the key contributors to calf morbidity and mortality can be managed to greatly reduce t...

Dairy Cattle-selection, Feeding and Management

ORGANIC ANALYTICAL REAGENTS By JOHN H. YOE, Professor of Chemistry, University of Virginia, and LANDON A. BARVER, Director of Research, American Viscose Corporation. A comprehensive treatise on organic analytical reagents. It represents probably the first attempt to collect in one volume the data hitherto scattered throughout the literature. A glossary of reagents is included, and a bibliograph...

Calf Nutrition and Colostrum Management

Calf mortality is highest during the first six months of life. Added to this is the losses to the industry caused by around 50,000 breeding cows (1.4% of the U.K total) dying at calving, mainly as a result of dystocia. Scouring is the most common disease in young calves and, as a result, is the greatest single cause of death in calves, accounting for almost 50% of all calf deaths. Scouring in c...