Colostrum management: give your calves sufficient high quality colostrum to become productive cows
Calves are born without antibodies in their blood and are totally dependent on antibodies in the colostrum they drink after birth. Good colostrum management is extremely important to rear healthy calves, but also productive cows. However, colostrum management is not optimal at many farms, which has of course a financial impact.
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Contribution detail info
R4D
Resilience For Dairy
- Location
- Europe
- Authors
- EN & NL Sandra Debevere
- DE - Caroline Braquet
- IT - Serena Soffiantini
- SL - Marija Klopcic
- Purpose
- Education/Training
- Communication
- Dissemination
- File type
- Document
- File size
- 402 kB
- Created on
- 30-06-2024
- Origin language
- English
- Official project website
- R4D
- License
- CC BY-NC-ND
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