BAT-Conference 2024
The Bavarian Working Group Animal Nutrition (BAT) organizes its 62th annual conference this year at the LfL in Poing/Grub. The general topic is: „Digital technologies and intelligent systems in the feeding of livestock“. Again, we were represented with a scientific contribution.
The title of our poster is: “The use of a milk replacer with a high content of crude protein in the practical rearing of calves”.
The results in brief:
In this study, the use of our milk replacer with a high crude protein content was tested on 84 calves in practice (BEWI-MILK® AM 5).
- Calves with a high genetic performance level are able to consume even higher quantities of milk replacer than previously described in the supply recommendations. „Controlled full feeding“ is not necessarily inferior to ad libitum feeding.
- The use of high crude protein concentrations in the milk replacer in combination with high feed quantities leads to an increase in daily weight gain during the feeding phase.
- A high crude protein concentration in the milk replacer allows calves with a high genetic performance level to be provided with the required crude protein quantities, which promote the conversion of daily gains into functional tissue and reduce the excessive build-up of fat deposits.