Health and performance of calvesrel

Health and performance of calves
relative to the plane of milk replacer
(MR) nutrition fed has received
recent attention (Ballou, 2012; Hengst
et al., 2012; Obeidat et al., 2013;
Ballou et al., 2015), and rightly so
because in a 2006 survey, 7.8% of
preweaned dairy heifers died, with
diarrhea or other digestive problems
accounting for 56.5% of the deaths
(NAHMS, 2007).