Calf housing: Necessary improvements to boost productivity

Research in the US and Canada reveals new ways to look at housing with the aim to bolster calf development and improve long-term productivity. Calf rearing is a labour-intensive task that doesn’t always go as planned and sometimes ends in mortality and morbidity. One of the 3 main causes of mortality and morbidity in calves is the housing environment, the other 2 being calf management and husbandry, and calf nutrition. Mortality and morbidity a costly problem Recent research from the Agri-Foo