MAYBİ CALF FORMULA
The rules which should be paid attention in healthy calf growing;
- It should be provided that it drink the colostrum within the first 3-4 hours after the birth. The amount should be 10% of calf alive weight and given 2-3 times a day
- Calves should be separated from their mothers and put into a different section at latest in 24 hours. This gives them the opportunity of providing their own immunities.
- The temperature of shelter should not be higher than 16 C. Clean and dry pad should be used. It should be paid attention to any kind of hygiene. (Pacifier, bucket, keeper etc.)
- The clean and fresh water is given to calves from 4th day.
- Water could be given to calf any time expect from the first two (2) hours after giving the calf formula.
- The places where calf is sheltered should not be crowed. At least 2,2 square meters should be reserved for each calf.
- Silage and fresh grassland herbs of which water content is high affect growing negatively because it would limit the fodder consumption. Thus, it is not recommended to animals younger than 3 months old.
Preparation Instructions
For gaining 1 liter calf formula; 125 gr. (about 2,5 full tea glass) is put into a container and mixed with ½ liter 50 C water. It is stirred fast until hot water and product spread homogenously. After that cold water is added until the mixture reached 1 liter and stirred. Calf formula should be got drunk to calves at 38 C.
When should calves be weaned?
The weaning of calves from milk and liquid fodders feature like-milk should be started at 3-4 week old and it also should be extended to 6-12 weeks old. The issues affect this period: growth rate of calf, increase of preliminary fodder consumption, calf should be got used to eat dry herb. If daily preliminary fodder consumption of calf reaches to 450-500 grams and it is used to eat amount of dry herb, this means the calf has freed from milk addition in other words it has reached to the era to be weaned.
Calf formula should be prepared with 50 C water and it should be at 38 C when it is given. Prepared formula could be got drunk to calf with calf nursing bottle or wide opening containers. Drinking of formula with nursing bottle is seen more appropriate because it would awake digestion juices. Sometimes some digestion problems could be occurred when drinking from opened bucket. This issue is important especially for young calves. If calf has sucked its mother first day, it would get used to drink from bucket more difficultly. It is easier to nurse these kind of calves with calf nursing bottle.
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