Come feed a bottle calf with me by clicking this link. It is important not to hold the bottle too high when feeding the calves because we do not want to risk milk flowing down her trachea into her lungs. In fact, on the bottle there is a little black button that allows for air escape when feeding. If this black button is plugged or stuck, then this creates a vacuum which causes the walls of the plastic bottle to collapse and prevents the calf from eating properly.
Typically once a calf starts eating on a bottle to the point where I can feed her like the one in the video posted above, then we can begin training them to eat on a bucket. Usually for the youngest bottle calves I will have to straddle them or assist them by holding their head level with the nipple. The most bottles I have fed at one chore was 24!
Today we shipped 4,791 gallons of milk.
Today we had _ new calves.
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