Calf Management Tips: Nesting Score
The appropriate bedding for a calf varies from a thin layer of straw, sand or wood chips in the summer to a deep layer of an insulating straw where a calf can nestle into the bedding to stay warm as the temperature drops. This episode of...
Calf Management Tips: Administering Intravenous Injections
Medications such as Banamine® (for pain) must be injected directly into a vein. In this movie, Elizabeth demonstrates how to administer an intravenous injection to a young calf.
Calf Management Tips: Esophageal Tube Feeder
Calf Management Tips Series. An esophageal tube feeder is an essential tool for feeding colostrum to newborn calves and for administering fluids to sick or dehydrated calves. For some calf raisers, the idea of tubing a calf may cause some...
Lidocaine Blocking and Dehorning Calves
Calf Management Tips Video Series. The 2017 National FARM Program (Farmers Assuring Responsible Management) takes aim at pain management. Painful medical procedures and the need to manage the associated pain and stress to animals get...
New Organic Calf Milk Replacer
Organic calf milk replacers have been a rather scarce commodity in the United States. Milk Specialties Global is changing that with the introduction of Organi-calf ™ our new USDA Organic calf milk replacer. For many organic dairies, this will be just the tool to help...
Do-The-Math Calculator
Use our new calculator to compare milk income from Energy Booster to milk income from Palm Fat. Enter your Farm & Milk Values to customize the analysis to your herd. Component prices and PPD $/cwt are updated regularly, and can be modified to reflect your region...