Feeding dairy calves in California . like rolled barley, oats, wheat bran or middlings, milo, kafir, Indiancorn, dried beet pulp, cocoanut meal, crushed Carob pods, etc.; inthe case of more or less delicate calves that do not eat their feedreadily, a small proportion of linseed meal may be included in thegrain mixture. Indian corn, oats and middlings are ordinarily tooexpensive to be used for feeding calves under our conditions. Afine quality of clean bright hay should be placed before the calves 42 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA EXPERIMENT STATION twice daily, in addition to skim milk and grain, in
Feeding dairy calves in California . like rolled barley, oats, wheat bran or middlings, milo, kafir, Indiancorn, dried beet pulp, cocoanut meal, crushed Carob pods, etc.; inthe case of more or less delicate calves that do not eat their feedreadily, a small proportion of linseed meal may be included in thegrain mixture. Indian corn, oats and middlings are ordinarily tooexpensive to be used for feeding calves under our conditions. Afine quality of clean bright hay should be placed before the calves 42 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA EXPERIMENT STATION twice daily, in addition to skim milk and grain, in such amounts asthey are likely to clean up. Only heifer calves from the best cows in the herd should be raisedto be added to the herd, since calves from other cows will not belikely to develop into profitable dairy cows. Calves not raised forthe dairy herd may be fed for veal and disposed of at about twomonths of age or later. Whole milk can only be fed with profitduring all or most of this time when a special price can be obtained. Fig. 10.—Home-made calf stanchions. for a superior article. Such markets are rarely found outside of thelarge cities, and even there the demand for choice veal is limited, al-though increasing. Most calves that are to be vealed must, therefore,be fed skim milk after the first couple of weeks; some farmers allowveal calves to run with the cows, generally placing two calves to anurse cow, or continue the feeding of w4iole milk along with skimmilk until the calves are sold, but this method increases considerablythe cost of the ration. It is not necessary to feed whole milk formaking an excellent quality of veal; and this can be produced onskim milk supplemented with suitable grain feed and hay, as above FEEDING DAIRY CALVES IN CALIFORNIA 43 suggested. The method of feeding in this case does not differ fromthat of raising skim-milk calves for the dairy, except that the calvesare fed all the grain they will eat with relish, so at to insure rapidgains
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