Managing for Profit
Group housing for dairy calves
One of the important aspects of a successful dairy farm is raising good replacements and that starts with calves. While individual calf hutches have proven to be a good way to raise healthy calves, they are also very labor intensive and in the dead of winter, very tough work. Among the alternatives are individual pens inside a larger, well-ventilated building or groups of calves within a large, well-ventilated building. Dr. Sandra Godden has been researching facilities and automatic feeders at the University of Minnesota. She talks about the group housing with automatic feeders.
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