Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-27
Feeding Separator Milk to Calves.

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Professor T. l.. Hacker. Of the Min
ncsota Agricultural College, out of the
abundance of his experience presents
the following directions for the growing
of good calves on separator milk:
Il have made calf rearing my bust
ness for over wenty years. and during
the last fifteen years have placed my
chief reliance on skim milk. For grow
ing calves / consider separator milk at
least equal to whole milk, though calv-
es will not lay on as much fat as they
Will when whole milk is fed; but they
will make as good growth and be as
thrifty on skim milk. There is nothing
in butter fat that a calf al use in
building body tissue. Butter fat can
be converted into body hea and body
fat and nutriment for this purpose can
be supplied more cheaply with flax
meal, which contains 80 to 81 per cent
oil. My system of feeding is very uni
form. When the calf is dropped I let
1t suck once, and h e remove it from
the dam. If 1T is removed in the morn
ing / give it no feed until the following
morning. This is done Sc the calf will
be hungry and will drink the milk with
out the finger. / give from three to fou
pints of its mothers milk twice q day.
Immediately after milking h dam. A
small calf gets three pints and a large
calf our pints. This / continue for
about week. Then for one week I
give it whole milk half and skim milk
half twice a day. giving it only from
three to four pints. The third week I
feed all separator skim milk but put in
the milk a t%easpoonful of ground flax.
gradually increase the skim milk and
meal so that by end of the fourth
week it is receiving a heaping table
spoonful of flax meal and ten pints of
milk twice a day. After the first month
it has access to a little early cut hay
and a little whole oats, or a mixture of
oats and bran or shorts. Tho
points are strict regularity
In time of feeding quantity and temper
ature of milk.
1T has been the general opinion
among farmers that separator skim
milk was not a strong and nutritious
feed, and that a large mess must be
given to make UP in quantity what they
supposed it lacked in quality. and the
result was that calves We're overfed and
Indigestion would be produced. which
was followed by scours and bloat.
IF directions are strictly followed the
calf will always act more hungry after
it's meal han it did before, but
It is better thus than to give it a larger
and hen have a case of scours or
bloat on your hands. The milk should
measured every time with a clean |
lin cup. oil weighed with a balance
scale. Each calf should be fed by itself |
out OF a clean tin pail, which should be
and scalded after each feeding |
lust as thoroughly and carefully as one
loes the milk pals. Place the calves in
stanchions while they are being
led, SO they will not get In the habit OF
sucking each other. Have the little
nanger in ron of them wide enough
30 an ordinary tin pail containing the
ness Of milk sets into 1t. Have parti-
ions placed in the mange n when it
taken the milk take out the pail,
If the calf is old enough to eat pats
Or bran throw in about a tablespoonful,
it will Don get in the habit of
the oats as soon as it has tax
IN the milk, for about that time it
wants 70 10 SotilcAItlHS dliO IL IL lS HOT
confined in a stanchion or tied out of
each of another calf it win amuse it
by sucking it's neighbor's ears. The
bottom Of the manger should be a
board about ten inches wide
md be SO adjusted that it can be taken
nut II c a week and scrubbed with hot
water Inc soap. for the mange must be
,ept absolutely sweet and Clean"