The effect of calf nutrition on the performance of dairy herd replacements

Sixty-five Holstein–Friesian calves were randomly allocated to one of eight nutritional treatments at 4 days of age. In this factorial design study, the treatments comprised of four levels of milk replacer (MR) mixed in 6 l of water (500, 750, 1000 and 1250 g/day) × two crude protein (CP) concentrat...

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Main Authors: S.J. Morrison, H.C.F. Wicks, A.F. Carson, R.J. Fallon, J. Twigge, D.J. Kilpatrick, S. Watson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2012-01-01
Series:Animal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731111002163