@conference {3672,
	title = {BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The effect of milk allowance on performance of dairy calves},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {76},
	year = {2016},
	month = {07/2016},
	pages = {175-176},
	address = {Adelaide},
	abstract = {Restricted milk diets increase and hasten the onset of
solid feed intake in milk-fed calves (de Passill{\'e} et al., 2011)
and facilitate the weaning of calves, which reduces the
growth check during weaning in comparison to ad libitum
fed calves (Huuskonen \& Khalili, 2008). As a consequence,
dairy calves are commonly fed a restricted milk allowance
of approximately 10\% of a calf{\textquoteright}s BW (approximately 4 to 6
L of milk/d; e.g. Vasseur et al., 2012). However, calves fed
a restricted amount of milk (10\% of BW) show increased
behavioural signs of hunger like non-nutritive visits to the
milk feeder (Rushen \& de Passill{\'e}, 1995) and less growth
pre-weaning when compared with calves fed more milk
(Khan et al., 2007). Indeed, a growing body of research
has consistently shown that calves fed more milk exhibit
greater BW gains before weaning (see review by Khan et
al., 2011).
The aim of this study was to identify the effect of
feeding 6 or 12 L/d of milk on average daily gain (ADG)
and final body weight (BW) after weaning when using a
gradual, step-down weaning method.},
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Rosenberger K and Costa JHC and Neave HW and vonKeyserlingk MAF and Weary DM}
}
