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Feeding calf starter after birth can promote calf performance for increasing quality of cow replacement stock
Newborn calve has an undeveloped rumen and tend to easily diarrhea
caused by E. coli from environment and cause death. Feeding calf starter (CS) content
probiotic after birth can promote rumen development and suppress E. coli. This
experiment aimed to evaluate the effect of different feeding calf starter to FH calf
performance. Different test (t-test) was used in this experiment. The treatments were
the use of different calf starter: 1. Calf starter from farmer (CS-F), 2. Calf starter
content fermented waste cabbage (CS-L). The materials were CS content waste
cabbage fermented, CS from farmer and 30 Frisian Holstein calves with aged 7-14
days and 41.14 ± 3.28 kg initial body weight. Feeding calf starter twice per day after
giving milk, forage and water given ad libitum. The parameters measured were feed
intake, feces consistency and daily gain. The data were analyzed with t- test. The
result indicated that there were no different (P>0.05) on feed intake and average
daily gain, but CS content fermented waste cabbage produced feces consistency better
than (P<0.05) CS from farmer. Feeding calf starter with added fermented waste
cabbage produce good calve performance.
Key words: calf starter, fermented cabbage waste, feed intake, feces consistency and
body weight gai