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The effect of milk replacer and whole milk on performance of holstein calves growth

Peiman Eivazi, Mahtab Jalili and Naser Dadgar

Calf milk replacers are cheaper than whole cow milk. milk replacers are an excellent source of nutrition for calves prior to weaning. Milk replacer don’t have the risk of waste milk and hospital milk. 32 newborn Holestein calves were used. The animals were divided into four groups in wich the control group were fed cow milk. The average daily gain and daily height were measured throughout the trial which lasted for two months. The data were statistically analyzed using completely randomized design. The treatment with cow milk showed high daily gain and daily height (p<0.05). This experiment demonstrated that calves could be reared with milk replacer, without any problem on growth, feed intake and water consume.