I am very excited to be sharing a research project that I have been working on for the final semester while at the University of Maine, and this project is based on the health and husbandry of the calves at this very farm! I love these cows a tremendous amount and want nothing more than to provide them with the best possible care, and one way I am trying to achieve this is by researching common husbandry practices for managing sick dairy calves and proposing suggestions to bring to the farm based on this research.
In this project, I collected data on the quality of colostrum, serial dilutions to asses barn cleanliness, temperature recordings of the calves for the first two weeks of life, and sire evaluations. With this information, I included 60 calves in my research; 50 Holsteins and 10 Jerseys; and finalized my research in the poster below. It is a large poster so the formatting isn't perfect but I hope you are able to read some of it and gain some valuable information!
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