Milk replacer: Exchanging lactose for fat

A new study looked at the effect of energy source in calf milk replacer on performance, digestibility, and gut permeability in rearing calves. The study has been recently published in the Journal of Dairy Science. The current global trend in dairy calf rearing is to focus on growth performance using whole milk (WM) or calf milk replacers (CMR) of high nutritional quality. This is the consequence of recent insights suggesting that nutrient intake from WM or CMR during the preweaning period impro