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Faunsdale, AL | Not a good plan to dilute the milk with another bottle of water. The calf can digest the milk best at the strength it is, not diluted in the bottle or in the stomach.
An older calf can do fine about anyway, but for the first few weeks just keep some water available if you can without it freezing. The urge to suckle will help the calf to find the grain and then they will need more water. So when you feed the bottle put in some water in a pail and keep a small amount of fresh calf starter available. They pick it up pretty fast.
It's true that once they get on grain, scours won't be much of a problem. | |
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question with a bottle calf
