System of raising dairy calf

• Keeping calf with its dam: in this system of rearing calf is allowed to suckle milk directly from its mother’s udder a little before and little after milking.
• Weaning system: in this system, the calf is kept away from its dam and fed artificially. There are also practices of removing calf from dam.
• Weaned immediately after birth
• Calf remain with dam for 2 to 3 days and removed to calf pen

Advantages of weaning

• Cow continues to give milk whether or not calf is alive
• Calf can be culled at an early stage
• With the help of milk substitute calves can be raised economically even if the dam dies.
• Avoid risk of complications due to under feeding and over feeding a calf.
• Exact amount of ilk produced by a be determined
• Cows became regular breeder. Calving interval in weaned calves reported to be to 14 months against 16 to 18 months in unweaned calves.