The Further Development of Milk Replacements for Dairy Calves

Previous work (15) has demonstrated that normal growth can be obtained in dairy calves by the use of limited amounts of saleable whole milk with a milk replacement.Numerous reports (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13) in the literature indicate the possibilities of raising dairy calves on limited amounts of whole milk and dry concentrates.This report presents additional experiments relative to the improvement of formulas published previously.The principal objectives were to evaluate other plant and animal products and to develop a simpler formula.It was desired to study the comparative value of meat scrap, corn gluten meal, soybean oil meal, blood flour, dried skimmilk and ground raw soybeans, nutri-soy and red dog flour in milk replacements.Previous work at this station (13) indicated a comparison was needed between dried brewers' yeast and distillers' dried solubles.