In specialised calf rearing, antibiotics are often used for calf diarrhoea or pneumonia and in dairy products because of mastitis. There is a need to reduce antibiotic usage in organic animal husbandry, more specifically in calf rearing and dairy production.
Solution
One approach more and more implemented in organic systems is cow-based calf rearing. In most conventional and organic farming systems, the calf is separated from the cow and reared separately with warm milk from a bucket. The cow-calf system uses knowledge of the natural behaviour of cows. Cows will not be the whole day at the side of their calves. First, the calves are hidden, and the cow visits them multiple times a day to let them drink milk.
Description
In a cow-calf system, the calf stays healthier on the dairy farm because it gets the milk fresh, warm, in sufficient quantity, and with all the intact immunoglobulins that the cow forms due to the germs present in the barn. Later the calves are in a group with other calves playing and are not at their mothers' side all day round. Concluding that calves can suckle alongside milking.
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