Print This Page
Home
Colostrum: The Most Important Meal
Special points of interest:
Ensuring that calves receive adequate Ig levels at birth is the only way to protect a newborn from environmental and disease challenges.- The first meal (colostrum) provides rich nutrients and antibodies with long term benefits.
- Newborns are born with very low energy stores and generally poor insulative protection, especially during the first few hours after birth.
- Colostrum replacers provide consistent, disease free, and guaranteed levels of Ig’s.
Automatic Calf Feeders and Group Housing
Principles and Experience
Producers have traditionally raised calves in individual pens or hutches. This rearing system has had advantages of individual feeding, observation and reduced risk of cross-contamination. It is however, still labour intensive.
Dairy cattle are naturally group-living animals. Group-housed calves can enjoy an early social interaction and learn to understand group behaviour. Research is now proving that well-managed group housed calf rearing systems can provide advantages for both calves and producers.
click here for the full article
We are the Milk Replacer Specialists
Our milk replacers and milk-based feeds are designed to enhance the genetic potential of calves, lambs, kid-goats, piglets and foals. Our products blend the latest in nutritional research and manufacturing technology (patented processing) and offer supreme digestibility and animal-growth performance. All this with sound economics and value.
For over 30 years we have been dedicated to furthering young animal nutrition. Combined with our own experience raising over 100,000 calves a year and our commitment to industry, academia and producers, Grober is proud to offer its expertise in young animal nutrition and management.
.
Grober Nutrition…..Blending the art & science of young animal nutrition.
Grober Nutrition is HACCP Certified by SGS Canada under the ANAC Feed Safety Program.
We sell through a dealer network -
Find a Dealer near you in Canada | Contact us by email | Use this contact form for product info
Call Toll Free (800) 265-7863 ext. 219
Calf Winter Feeding
Understanding the basic concepts of growth helps improve calf and heifer management. Early postnatal growth is the most efficient time to develop skeletal growth, muscle growth, deposit protein and attain the highest feed efficiency. Mammary development can be enhanced by liquid (milk) feed intake prior to weaning (Brown et al, 2002).
Calf raisers are advised to assess and adapt their feeding practices to ensure adequate growth while maximizing economic benefits.
Winter-feeding in cold climatic conditions requires additional attention to ensure that the young calf is provided with sufficient nutrients for maintenance and for growth expectations.
click here for more details and charts
.
.
The Benefits of a Foal Milk Pellet
FoalGro Milk Pellet is available in 1.5 kg containers, 5kg pails and 25kg bags.
- Grober Nutrition conducted a 4 month trial gathering information on the growth and development of foals fed a milk based pellets as the introductory diet.
- See the trial results
- Features & Benefits | Technical Sheet
