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Reply To: Mastitis In Sheep and Goats
Feeding Mastitic Milk to Calves:Review
ABSTRACT
Milk from cows treated with antibiotics
for mastitis and other disorders has been
fed to young calves in fresh or fermented
form. Growth of calves so fed bas been
similar to that of control animals offered
fermented colostrum or other liquid
feeds. Incidence of health disorders in
mastitic milk-fed calves has been no
greater than in those fed control milks.
Mastitic milk preserved by addition of
propionic acid or formaldehyde was
relatively unpalatable to the calves.
Limited data indicate that first-lactation
cows fed mastitic milk as calves suffered
no more udder trouble than did their
mates formerly given other liquid feeds.https://www.journalofdairyscience.org/article/S0022-0302(81)82639-2/pdf
