Rearing young animals
Healthy animal rearing in the first months of life has a considerable impact on growth, weaning age and ultimate production.
The ultimate goal for rearing calves, lambs and kids, is to achieve and maintain a highly productive dairy herd. A good health status is vital to achieving that goal. The supply of milk replacer to rearing animals is a precise job. These young animals will form the basis of future dairy herd and deserve attention to develop to strong and healthy heifers and dairy cows, sheep and goats.
The goal of a good milk replacer for piglets is to assure an optimal sow-milk replacement whenever the farmer is left with orphan piglets, the sow can not produce enough milk for feeding. Additionally, a well considerable impact on growth, weaning age and ultimate production will be achieved.
But there is also the immediate economics of the use of a good rearing milk replacer as the revenues of the cow, sheep and goat milk fed to the young calves, lambs and kids are missed. When feeding milk replacers, farmers can sell the liquid milk directly to human food industry. This higher revenue makes the use of milk replacer a lucrative business.
