Effect of altering the protein intake of autumn-born Holstein-Friesian calves on calf performance
| Autor: | H. C. F. Wicks, R. J. Fallon, J. Twigge, L. E. R. Dawson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science. 2005:193-193 |
| ISSN: | 1752-7570 1752-7562 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1752756200011042 |
| Popis: | Data from the US (Van Amburgh et al., (2001)) suggests that the current UK recommendations for feeding the neonatal calf (˜500g milk replacer/d, at ˜230 g crude protein per kg fresh milk powder) are inadequate to sustain high growth rates in early life. It has been suggested that increasing nutrition during the first 6-8 weeks of the calf’s life will improve lifetime production, health and fertility. An experiment was therefore initiated to investigate the influence of level of milk replacer feeding and the crude protein content of the milk replacer on calf performance during the first 8 weeks of life, under UK conditions. |
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