Calf Housing – The Ambient Environment

Get the ambient environment right in a calf building and you’ll be rewarded with healthy, well-grown animals. Get it wrong, and you could be facing an uphill battle. That’s why it’s essential that all buildings - new or existing - are set up to provide calves with a dry, clean environment with plenty of fresh air, but no draughts.

This Dairy Insight explores the ambient environment of calf buildings and how you’ll be rewarded with healthy, well-grown animals, setting them up for their life in the dairy herd.

Issued 1^st September 2023

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