Calf rearing - a practical guide
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This book provides farmers with information on calf biology, evaluating alternative feed resources, and developing a full management strategy for calf rearing. It highlights the principles of calf growth and feed digestion, which allows producers to select the most appropriate system for their farm.
The book provides very detailed commonsense information, and comprises fifteen chapters:
- Introduction
- The principles of digestion of feed in calves
- The importance of colostrum to newborn calves
- Nutrient requirements
- Obtaining calves
- Milk feeding of calves
- Calf milk replacers
- Solid feeds for calves
- Communicating with the calf
- Disease prevention in calves
- Housing of calves
- Welfare aspects of calf rearing
- Post-weaning management
- Economics of calf rearing
- Best management practices for rearing dairy replacement heifers
Reprinted in 2005.
Book Details
| Title | Calf rearing - a practical guide |
|---|---|
| Pages | 211 |
| ISBN | 0 643 06766 3 |
| Catalogue number | B387 |
| Year of publish | 2002 |
| Publisher | NSW Department of Primary Industries |
| Price | $44.95AUD (inc GST) purchase online |