CALF REARING
In many dairy herds the earliest heifer calves are reared as follows: — They are not allowed to suck their dams, but have from four to eight quarts of new milk per day, according to age, for three or four weeks. They are then fed with skim milk thickened with'boiled linseed or oatmeal, and taught as soon as possible to eat hay and a small quantity of linseed cake. They are then allowed to run in a grass field, and afterwards left out
altogether, with a shed to run into in wet weather or to avoid the heat of the sun and teasing of flies. The milk feeding is altogether discontinued when they are about four months old. They are supplied with lib each per day of linseed cake all through the year.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 447, 13 March 1912, Page 3
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134CALF REARING King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 447, 13 March 1912, Page 3
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