Prebiotic supplementation is beneficial for dairy calf health and development, and may improve milk yield in lactating cows.

WITH many dairy farmers over quota this spring, large amounts of milk will be fed to calves. Many experiments were done in the past, adding probiotics to milk for calf feeding with an average 5% ...

AD LIB feeding of milk allows the calf to consume more milk when compared to a conventional milk-feeding programme for calves (bucket-feeding twice daily at a total of 10pc of bodyweight). However, ...

One sixth of the world population is starving. In the meantime, producers from all over the world daily disdain billions of liters of bovine colostrum, which is seen as rich in nutrients, ...