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UiU-C.
■:.lvzs on ::ilk .substitutes
In
oonduct
cient St
Fanagen
economi
Dair^ h
On
front In
of the
Of 30Od
sonable
mint, a
at fata
]ignt o
r a;. in
a report on sxperirsnts
: ■ at the Matar.uska Experl -
'.on, entitled Feeding and.
t of Dairy Cows in A.lnska;
.erson points a way to
I replacements in the
of the big problems con
's irynen in all parts
,‘ritory is the securing
•e placement corns at a nea
rest. \;ith these facps ip
experiment was started
’ 3ka which night give some
the poss lb .1111 io a* of
’Oplacer.cnt heifers.
The principle item of cost in
rai3“
re qul
?Q
their 1
satisfa.
obtains
nt of w
eifers is the wp.ole milk
the first few months of
is, It'was found that?
dry results could be !
y feeding a ] limited anlou
■le mill: required the °irst
few nrnt'v. of their lives. It was
found if' t satisfactory results,1
•couId,b1 obtainsd by feed1ng a •
limited ..ount of whole milk sup
ple.-’o t with a. prepared grain
yy< A -y 4
ifi Ji. A -
■e .
As basis for cok par is on
one lot s fed whole- hill: eric 11.
they we -3 old enough co wean -
The cost of feeding this lot, of
course, s excessive as it re
quired , out a gallon of nil 1: a
day to jvelb.p these calves.
T' -ocond lot was fed the
followin’' grain rations : •
Ground 1-leas barley 37 lbs.
Grounds .ats 36 lbs.
Gr ound v. eat
Fish lie; -
Dried s hi milk
9 lbs.
4 lbs.
DC lbs.
Salt 2 lbs>
The calves were allowed1to
have whole milk until they were
about fj -3 days old. They were
then gradually switched front whole
milk to reconstructed skim milk
made by Ixing one pound of .dry
skim powder to nine pounds of
water. The grain mixture mentioned
above was placed before t' e calves
and they -wore taught to eat as
soon as possible. The gallon of
reconstructed milk per day was
gradually reduced as the calves
[learned to eat the grvyn mixture» ’
'.line calves in this lot V'-re weaned
dr cm the liquid .'diet when t
approxiniately thirty days old« V3i.il
these calves developed much more
slowly than those fed whole milk,
she gains (with one exception) were
satisfactory after the calves were
si::ty fo ninoty d ays old* 1 hese
calves all lived to the end of the
trial or weaning time, hut one
calf d:.ed soon after the trial was
ended. The other
O’.
Ln
40
u i
developed into
'Od cow
it is hard to tell
now between- the tv;
lot '
In fact,
erence
o year old horfors
o n wh o 1 e ' r.i i 1 k a nd t ho so ra
ise^ -on dry feed,
Tho co;
Wc
nuca
.Less when dry -.food was used.
A third lot of calves was fed
he above grain mixture; however,
instead cf
the dried shim milk,
pcing nixed wi
e grain, was fed
fas liquid. These Calves had their
•reconstructed shim milk diet until
jthey were weaned at a out. four mon
:,ohe o'"* age. This third lot made
•i practically as *ood a win as the
slot fed. whole, milk* Th y locked
i a.ter than the lot fed tho dry
|foed all during the teat. Their
pest was greater then those fed on
the dry feed, but thorn’ were no
{losses In' this- -lot,
Since this- trial
t'-.e above grain nix tv
’.sod tora ise hefcrs
v.v s cor.pl’.3 ted
ro hae been
r V,otb ^-v,
' j U .J U i ox,
t anus he. and f
! f ; ?„ f ;
"ho
i*’G H i* iC'.Ti'Q
lowevsh, it nay be considered
to wait until the calves are drora
orty to fifty -days old before they
transferred to the
ary i
fy;
: L. .
Some individual calves will take
;hcir dry feed none readily than
Othersj theroforo, they can bo ve
xed fror. the liquid diet at an
sarlier are •
it has been found at the Stat
ions that calves will consume app
roximately one'pound of the concen
trates for every 15C to COO Its of
(jody weight , They will eat more
grain as they gain in a e. Perhaps,
fc :o dairy .men who have to buy all
of their grain would cs v/oll to
puy one of .the neadygwixod calf feeds
for their•calves, especially for
Y 'edinr. during the earlier stages of
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