Why Study this Calf Rearing Course?

If you want to grow and take care of a calf, this course was specifically made for you! This online calf rearing course gives you the fundamentals needed to raise a calf until it’s fully grown, such as how to diagnose and manage their common health problems, the different systems to rear them, and the housing, weaning and post-weaning requirements needed in a commercial situation.

Learn the sucessful way to rear calves

Study the rearing and selection of calves.

This course develops your ability to manage the rearing of calves for different agricultural purposes. It covers all aspects of calf rearing including calf selection, birth, calf diseases, rearing systems, calf housing, weaning and post weaning. Learn to select calves for specific purposes (eg. dairy, beef, breeding) and rear them to that end. Breeding calves is only the start of a long process necessary in raising a calf. This course provides a very good foundation for understanding the whole process.

  • Improve your ability to rear calves.
  • Improve your job prospects with improved knowledge.
  • Learn from industry specialists ? our tutors!.
  • Study in your own time at your own pace..

This course develops your ability to manage the rearing of calves for different agricultural purposes. It covers all aspects of calf rearing including calf selection, birth, calf diseases, rearing systems, calf housing, weaning and post weaning. Learn to select calves for specific purposes (eg. dairy, beef, breeding) and rear them to that end. Breeding calves is only the start of a long process necessary in raising a calf. This course provides a very good foundation for understanding the whole process.

Course Aims

  • Select calves for specified purposes, including dairy stock, and breeding stock.
  • Explain the methods of managing calving operations on a farm.
  • Explain the diagnosis of common health problems which may occur in calves.
  • Explain different techniques of calf rearing.
  • Explain the housing requirements of calves in an animal production situation.
  • Explain the procedures for weaning calves in an commercial situation.
  • Explain the post-weaning requirements of calves, in a commercial situation.

Course Structure

There are 7 lessons in this course:

  1. Calving and Culling
    • Introduction
    • Research into raising dairy calves
    • Principles of good calf rearing
    • Pre-calving management
    • Managing the cow for a healthy calf
    • Colostrum management
    • Calf selection
    • Estimated Breeding Value (EBV)
    • Culling
    • Assessing calves for suitability in a rearing system
  2. Calving Management
    • The birth of a calf
    • Signs that the birth is close
    • Stages in a normal birth
    • Calving problems
    • Important points
    • Abnormal presentations
    • The calf at birth
    • Colostrum
    • Stress and pathogen exposure
    • Managing stress
    • Managing pathogen exposure
    • The calf digestive tract
    • Rumen development
    • Bacteria
    • Liquid in the rumen
    • Outflows of rumen materials
    • Absorptive qualities
    • Substrate (Dry feed Intake)
  3. Calf Health Management
    • Overview
    • Common calf diseases
    • Scours
    • Coccidiosis
    • Round Worm Scours
    • Lung worm
    • Calf diphtheria
    • Pneumonia
    • Clostridial Disease
    • salmonella
    • Navel and joint ill
    • Stress and the young calf
    • Transport stress
    • Feeding stress
    • Heat and cold
  4. Calf Rearing Systems
    • Birth to weaning
    • Natural Systems of Calf Rearing
    • Single suckling
    • Multiple suckling
    • Foster suckling
    • Race suckling
    • Early weaning
    • Artificial systems of calf rearing
    • Teaching the calf to drink
    • A basic Feeding program
    • Milk Substitute
    • Common calf rearing systems
    • Rearing calves at grass
    • Five and a half day system
    • Once a day system
    • Cold milk system
    • Acidified milk replacer
    • Mildly acidic milk replacer
    • Strongly acidic milk replacer
    • Milk-fed veal production
  5. Calf Housing
    • Ventilation
    • Isolation
    • Comfort
    • Economy
    • Calf Pens
    • Metal crates
    • The calf hutch
  6. Weaning
    • Stress at weaning
    • General weaning transition strategies
    • Providing water
    • Weaning at twelve and eight weeks
    • Weaning at five weeks
    • Weaning at four weeks
  7. Post-weaning
    • Post weaning period
    • Calf husbandry practices
    • Reducing surgical stress
    • Cattle identification
    • Castration
    • Bloodless castration
    • Surgical Castration
    • Dehorning
    • When to dehorn
    • Dehorning instruments and equipment
    • Tetanus
    • Vaccination and Worming

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  • Certificate sent to you
  • Online study (Printed notes available)
  • Self paced - no set timetable
  • 12 months to complete course

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    • Self paced - no set timetable
    • 12 months to complete course

    From: $35.00 / week for 19 weeks

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      Why Study this Calf Rearing Course?

      If you want to grow and take care of a calf, this course was specifically made for you! This online calf rearing course gives you the fundamentals needed to raise a calf until it’s fully grown, such as how to diagnose and manage their common health problems, the different systems to rear them, and the housing, weaning and post-weaning requirements needed in a commercial situation.

      Learn the sucessful way to rear calves

      Study the rearing and selection of calves.

      This course develops your ability to manage the rearing of calves for different agricultural purposes. It covers all aspects of calf rearing including calf selection, birth, calf diseases, rearing systems, calf housing, weaning and post weaning. Learn to select calves for specific purposes (eg. dairy, beef, breeding) and rear them to that end. Breeding calves is only the start of a long process necessary in raising a calf. This course provides a very good foundation for understanding the whole process.

      • Improve your ability to rear calves.
      • Improve your job prospects with improved knowledge.
      • Learn from industry specialists ? our tutors!.
      • Study in your own time at your own pace..

      This course develops your ability to manage the rearing of calves for different agricultural purposes. It covers all aspects of calf rearing including calf selection, birth, calf diseases, rearing systems, calf housing, weaning and post weaning. Learn to select calves for specific purposes (eg. dairy, beef, breeding) and rear them to that end. Breeding calves is only the start of a long process necessary in raising a calf. This course provides a very good foundation for understanding the whole process.

      Course Aims

      • Select calves for specified purposes, including dairy stock, and breeding stock.
      • Explain the methods of managing calving operations on a farm.
      • Explain the diagnosis of common health problems which may occur in calves.
      • Explain different techniques of calf rearing.
      • Explain the housing requirements of calves in an animal production situation.
      • Explain the procedures for weaning calves in an commercial situation.
      • Explain the post-weaning requirements of calves, in a commercial situation.

      Course Structure

      There are 7 lessons in this course:

      1. Calving and Culling
        • Introduction
        • Research into raising dairy calves
        • Principles of good calf rearing
        • Pre-calving management
        • Managing the cow for a healthy calf
        • Colostrum management
        • Calf selection
        • Estimated Breeding Value (EBV)
        • Culling
        • Assessing calves for suitability in a rearing system
      2. Calving Management
        • The birth of a calf
        • Signs that the birth is close
        • Stages in a normal birth
        • Calving problems
        • Important points
        • Abnormal presentations
        • The calf at birth
        • Colostrum
        • Stress and pathogen exposure
        • Managing stress
        • Managing pathogen exposure
        • The calf digestive tract
        • Rumen development
        • Bacteria
        • Liquid in the rumen
        • Outflows of rumen materials
        • Absorptive qualities
        • Substrate (Dry feed Intake)
      3. Calf Health Management
        • Overview
        • Common calf diseases
        • Scours
        • Coccidiosis
        • Round Worm Scours
        • Lung worm
        • Calf diphtheria
        • Pneumonia
        • Clostridial Disease
        • salmonella
        • Navel and joint ill
        • Stress and the young calf
        • Transport stress
        • Feeding stress
        • Heat and cold
      4. Calf Rearing Systems
        • Birth to weaning
        • Natural Systems of Calf Rearing
        • Single suckling
        • Multiple suckling
        • Foster suckling
        • Race suckling
        • Early weaning
        • Artificial systems of calf rearing
        • Teaching the calf to drink
        • A basic Feeding program
        • Milk Substitute
        • Common calf rearing systems
        • Rearing calves at grass
        • Five and a half day system
        • Once a day system
        • Cold milk system
        • Acidified milk replacer
        • Mildly acidic milk replacer
        • Strongly acidic milk replacer
        • Milk-fed veal production
      5. Calf Housing
        • Ventilation
        • Isolation
        • Comfort
        • Economy
        • Calf Pens
        • Metal crates
        • The calf hutch
      6. Weaning
        • Stress at weaning
        • General weaning transition strategies
        • Providing water
        • Weaning at twelve and eight weeks
        • Weaning at five weeks
        • Weaning at four weeks
      7. Post-weaning
        • Post weaning period
        • Calf husbandry practices
        • Reducing surgical stress
        • Cattle identification
        • Castration
        • Bloodless castration
        • Surgical Castration
        • Dehorning
        • When to dehorn
        • Dehorning instruments and equipment
        • Tetanus
        • Vaccination and Worming

      Enrol Now

      • Experienced Tutor support
      • Certificate sent to you
      • Online study (Printed notes available)
      • Self paced - no set timetable
      • 12 months to complete course

      From: $35.00 / week for 19 weeks

      Clear

       

      Get a Free Info Pack!

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