Choosing a Milk feeding program: Pasteurization Pro’s and Con’s
In the last few years, larger calf raising units and more attention being paid to rearing costs and profits, has made it interesting to look into the possibility of on farm pasteurization for waste milk.
Important criteria to consider in choosing a… Continue reading
Biosecurity Management
his is the employment of management practices that reduce animal exposure to infectious agents. These management procedures complement efforts to make animals more resistant to infection. A Biosecurity program must be individually tailored to the herd and its specific concerns and goals.
Areas to consider include:
- Entry of new animals,
- Quarantine of new animals,
- Prepurchase vaccination, testing or screening for disease,
- Knowledge of the herd origin for new purchases,
- Minimize feed and water contamination
- Minimize environmental contamination,
- Disinfection procedures,
- Minimize… Continue reading
Mixing Milk Replacers
There are many differing opinions and recommendations on the proper way of mixing a milk replacer. The need for hot, cold or lukewarm water and the effects on the calf are at the center of the discussion. Grober experience is derived from raising 70,000 calves annually. Research and information is compiled regularly related to feed costs, feed quality, digestibility, mixability etc. Changes are monitored at our calf rearing operations on a daily basis and throughout each growing period in terms… Continue reading
Milk Replacer Quality
Quality comes from several areas; the raw materials used, the method of manufacture and the soundness of the feeding nutrition program. All Grober milk replacers are manufactured with the same important high quality guidelines.
Sourcing of Quality Raw Materials
Quality raw materials are sourced and selected for optimum digestibility, solubility, suspension and thus absorption by the young animal.
Most of the ingredients that make good milk replacers are by-products of industries that do not make milk replacers. Great care must… Continue reading
Ingredient selection
We put the best possible ingredients to work for you.
All good milk replacers use milk protein for good digestion. Grober Milk Replacers go beyond just milk protein.
We blend together combinations of milk products to provide the amino acid structure required for total digestion and absorption.
We even add several proteins found wanting in all available milk products.
To this high quality energy base, we then add specially selected vitamins, coated for longer shelf life, and minerals chosen for… Continue reading