. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. RAISING DAIRY CATTLE 283 bing a little on its muzzle when it is thru drinking milk. Having learned the taste of the meal, the calf should be fed its allowance dry from a convenient feed box. Until it becomes accustomed to the new article of diet, a supply of meal may be kept before it. After this, only as much should be fed as will be eaten up, and the feed box should be cleaned out regularly. A
. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. RAISING DAIRY CATTLE 283 bing a little on its muzzle when it is thru drinking milk. Having learned the taste of the meal, the calf should be fed its allowance dry from a convenient feed box. Until it becomes accustomed to the new article of diet, a supply of meal may be kept before it. After this, only as much should be fed as will be eaten up, and the feed box should be cleaned out regularly. At 6 weeks the calf will usually eat lb. of concentrates a day; at 2 months, about 1 lb.; and at 3 months, 2 lbs. Unless it is desired to push the animal ahead rapidly no more than this need be fed the skim-milk calf up to 6 Fig. 79.—Home-Made Stanchions for Calves Calves should be confined in stanchions at feeding time until they eat their concentrates and overcome the desire to suck each others ears or udders. (From Wisconsin Station.) Concentrates for skim-milk calves.—Since skim milk is very rich in protein, it is not necessary to use protein-rich feeds, such as linseed or flaxseed meal, as concentrates for skim-milk calves. The farm- grown grains, such as corn, oats, barley, and kafir, give fully as good results and are ordinarily the cheapest concentrates available. Mix- ing small amounts of such well-liked feeds as linseed meal or bran with the grain may sometimes be advantageous to make the ration more palatable. In teaching calves to eat, ground grain is usually fed, but later whole corn or oats gives as good or even better results i Eckles, Dairy Cattle and Milk Production, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Henry, W. A. (William Arnon), 1850-1932; Morrison, F
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