This book provides farmers with information on calf biology, evaluating alternative feed resources, and developing a full management strategy for calf rearing. It highlights the principles of calf growth and feed digestion, which allows producers to select the most appropriate system for their farm.

The book provides very detailed commonsense information, and comprises fifteen chapters:

1. Introduction
    
2. The principles of digestion of feed in calves
    
3. The importance of colostrum to newborn calves
    
4. Nutrient requirements
    
5. Obtaining calves
    
6. Milk feeding of calves
    
7. Calf milk replacers
    
8. Solid feeds for calves
    
9. Communicating with the calf
    
10. Disease prevention in calves
     
11. Housing of calves
     
12. Welfare aspects of calf rearing
     
13. Post-weaning management
     
14. Economics of calf rearing
     
15. Best management practices for rearing dairy replacement heifers

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