It is unsurprising many farmers are switching from bottles to buckets with teats for feeding milk to older calves. Our test, carried out over a four-month period at my family dairy farm in Shropshire ...

The target of all good dairies should be to minimise mortality, and providing calves with enough good-quality colostrum as quickly as possible after calving is a vital first step to achieve this. The ...

She notes that for an average 85- to 90-pound calf, four liters is probably appropriate. But not every calf falls into that ...