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Brad explores a recent study comparing two common calf-feeding methods: open buckets and nipple buckets. While most U.S. dairies rely on open buckets because they allow calves to drink quickly and reduce chore time, the research looked at how these systems affect calf growth, digestion, and behavior.

The study followed individually housed calves fed six liters of milk per day until weaning at eight weeks. Calves fed with open buckets finished their milk much faster, often in under two minutes, while nipple-fed calves took about five minutes because the system mimics natural suckling. Despite the difference in drinking speed, both groups had similar growth rates and physical development.
However, behavior and digestion told a more interesting story. Calves fed with open buckets consumed more starter grain and spent more time ruminating, but they also showed more non-nutritive oral behaviors like sucking on pen fixtures or other calves—likely because their natural suckling drive wasn’t satisfied. Nipple-fed calves showed fewer of these behaviors, had slightly firmer feces, and exhibited metabolic signals suggesting improved digestion.

Brad breaks down the trade-offs for dairy producers: open buckets offer efficiency and faster feeding, while nipple buckets may better support calf welfare and natural behavior. The episode highlights how feeding systems can influence calf behavior, digestion, and management decisions on dairy farms.

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And welcome to The Moos Room. Just Brad today again. But I think spring is coming. We've been getting.

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Our calf barn ready for calving.

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Today is March 5th.

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When I record.

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This.

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We're first calf.

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Is due a week from now, so who knows when it might come. We've got about 120 that are due through the end of May. So we've got quite a few dairy calves and some beef crossbred calves. I'm going to be doing.

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Some research on.

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Those calves at a new product. Just kind of demonstrate, see if, see if it can help reduce some.

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Scours.

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In, in our calves. It's kind of interesting.

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It's a more of a natural product.

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That we're going to talk about now. Kind of talk about that another day. But I wanted to talk about calves again. You know, I feeding calves. It's always an interesting topic for me. I found this study that just came out looking at feeding calves with an open bucket versus a nipple bucket. So a pretty simple study. I thought it was kind of cool just to see what would happen.

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You know, we've fed calves with nipple buckets when I did our calf feeding study. We use nipple buckets.

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For about three years and.

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Feeding all of the calves that we did. So I thought it was kind of interesting. And we'll kind of dive into this study just to see what it what it showed and if, if there was any difference. I know quite a few farms have fed calves with just a bucket or a pail. Dump the milk in the pail and they drink it.

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And so this study set out to.

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Compare the performance and behavior of calves.

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With these two different feeding systems. Over 70% of.

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Dairy operations.

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In the US use bucket.

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Feeders, and.

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71% of those kind of rely on open bucket. So just a bucket or a pail dump the milk in in the calf drinks it. And why is that? It comes down to most efficient. Most of these farms that use open buckets are rapid.

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Delivery.

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Kind of this operational efficiency. How fast can we feed calves, dump the milk in and they drink it.

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Obviously there's.

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Calves possess a strong biological.

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Urge.

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To suckle. So suckle something or suck on another calf. So trying to figure out, you know, are we sacrificing calf.

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Welfare.

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And.

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Natural behavior for some sort of operational.

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Convenience or fast feeding method? So this study looked at feeding.

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Calves that were individually.

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How so? All individual.

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They did it for eight weeks.

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So calves were weaned about 56 days of life. They got all six.

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Liters of milk.

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So little less than two gallons per day kind of divided into two meals. They fed at 7:00 in the morning at 5:00 at night, and then they also had ad libitum access.

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To water and starter.

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So that's kind.

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Of important.

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As well to have access.

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To water and starter.

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As well as being fed milk. So then they just fed these calves with an open bucket or nipple bucket. The nipple bucket that they used was just a commercial nipple bucket. This was a milk bar. There's other folks out there. I used a system when we were feeding calves, but this was, a milk bar. So they did a lots of behavioral measurements.

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They took body weights, starter intake.

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Measured everything.

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What did we find? Well, if you think about time. So calves that were said in an open bucket. So they're fed.

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Three liters at.

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A time. It took less than two minutes. So 1.86 minutes to consume the.

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Three liters calves that were on a nipple.

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Bucket 5.33 minutes. So every stage of life, these calves always.

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Took longer to.

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Consume the milk with the nipple bucket. And that probably makes intuitive sense. You're you have this sucking reflex and it's just going to take that calf.

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Longer versus.

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Kind of inhaling the milk in less than two minutes. At two weeks of age, the calves.

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That were on.

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A nipple.

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Bucket were over.

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Six minutes. So there is some efficiency, although the calves.

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That were.

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Two weeks of age, about.

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4.5.

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Minutes to consume out of a bucket. So when they're training in that early stage, it's still going to take longer. But if you look at eight weeks at weaning time, a little.

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Over a.

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Minute, a minute and a half on the open.

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Bucket.

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Versus a little less than five.

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So 4.75.

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Minutes to do that. So it just takes you're going to take three.

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More minutes per.

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Calf on a nipple bucket. You know, the nipple feeding.

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Kind of forces the.

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Calf to mimic this natural tube.

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Tongue formation.

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And that slowed the rate of drinking or rapid gulping down the.

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Milk when they were on an.

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Open bucket. So it takes more time. What about.

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Average daily.

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Gain? Well, they didn't find any difference.

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In average.

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Daily gain. These calves are growing about 1.4.

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Pounds per day.

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Average daily gain was the same whether they were fed open.

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Bucket or nipple.

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Bucket. And they didn't find any other difference between the calves in these two.

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Groups, whether.

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Hip height, heart girth and with or height. They were all identical across all of the calves, whether they were fed with an open bucket.

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Or nipple bucket. So really.

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The slower ingestion of milk didn't necessarily penalize physical growth, so didn't affect that. Well, what about starter intake? Despite the same growth, calves fed with an open bucket consumed.

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More pelleted starter than the.

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Calves that were fed the nipple bucket. So the calves that were fed with an open bucket are consuming about a.

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Quarter pound more starter intake per day.

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Than the.

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Calves that were.

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Fed with the nipple bucket. So it's interesting that more grain intake in.

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Calves that were fed in.

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An open bucket. Why might that be? But if you think about it, calves require about 10 to 20 minutes of constant suckling to feel full from from eating. So if they're.

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Drinking their.

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Milk from an open bucket.

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In under two.

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Minutes, they're still having this.

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Urge or this suckling urge has not really been met. Sort of calves redirect this.

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I guess, frustration by aggressively eating.

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Starter concentrate.

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And kind of engaging in.

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Abnormal oral behaviors.

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To self soothe. So the calves that had open buckets, fed in open buckets had higher.

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Starter.

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Intake. And that was really driven by frustration and not necessarily hunger. So looking at the.

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Behavior of the.

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Calves, they're just not full. They drink so fast.

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The calves aren't full so they redirect. Go start eating starter and consume more starter.

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Despite having the same growth. So if you look at some of these other behavioral aspects, when we looked at eating starter. So the calves in an open bucket spend.

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More.

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Time eating.

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Starter 3.7.

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Minutes versus almost two minutes. So they spend about.

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Another.

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Minute during a.

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Four hour time period that these calves were watched for observation. So more time.

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Eating.

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Starter, more time.

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Drinking water, self grooming was about the same. Maybe they had.

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Some other oral behaviors. They were doing.

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Something else, suckling on other things, basically trying to feel satisfied. So they spent in in this behavioral aspect, the calves that had a nipple bucket, again, like I said, they.

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Were spent more time.

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Consuming milk. They looked at rumination as well. So the open bucket calves.

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Spent more time.

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Ruminating during.

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A four hour time period. They spent more time eating starter.

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And nearly double the time.

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Performing.

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Non-Nutritive oral behaviors like sucking things, sucking pen fixtures, sucking other calves. So that was one of the maybe drawbacks to having this open bucket is they've drank milk so fast that they got to find something else to do, and they they go suck.

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On different things around the.

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Pen. So they did some metabolic and digestive indicators as well. So they looked at blood glucose. So the nipple fed calves.

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Had higher glucose.

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Spikes.

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Two hours after.

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Feeding. And this indicates better milk passage rate.

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And curd formation.

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So in the digestive system the.

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Curd formation.

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The milk.

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Forms occurred.

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Which helps in better digestion. So nipple fed calves may be a little.

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Bit better digestion.

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Fecal consistency. The open bucket calves had higher Fico.

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Scores.

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Indicating.

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More.

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Fluid feces, although not necessarily clinical.

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Diarrhea. So more milk scour.

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So they drank so fast that maybe went through them a little bit faster. So they have a little bit.

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Higher fecal scores, but.

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Nothing that looks.

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Any terrible.

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So really.

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Slower.

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Ingestion of milk kind of triggered this satiety.

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Or fullness.

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Feeling. And it improved the physical digestion of the liquid diet. Well, open buckets.

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Increased starter intake, rumination.

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Maybe there's some tradeoffs to having these open buckets. So the kind of open bucket cost I should say they have heightened anxiety.

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So they're looking around.

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Trying to find this. It's like they have this.

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They're starving.

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They've drank so fast.

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And now they think they're starving.

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They have unnatural ingestion speeds. So cows maybe aren't meant to drink milk so fast like that. More of this sucking reflex like you would.

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If they were.

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You know, sucking on their.

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Dam or a beef.

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Calf sucking on their mom. It's going to.

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Be much slower, much slower.

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So they, you know, consume it much faster. They have.

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Looser feces.

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And they become frustrated more often, which results in cross sucking. So that's kind of the interesting fact about all of this. I never really thought about it before, but cross sucking we see calves cross sucking.

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In our dairy.

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And maybe it's because they drink so fast that now.

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They're bored and they got to.

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Go suck on something else. Suck on the pen. Second, another calf that's in the pen. So I don't know, maybe, maybe there is something to this, to this natural.

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Behavior and having more.

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Nipple.

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Feeders for the calves versus.

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Trying to use an open bucket. Obviously the nipple bucket satisfies kind of biology.

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You know, that's their natural state for a.

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Calf to drink.

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More slowly. If they were going to do it on their their mother lowers anxiety.

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So you don't have all these, you know, feelings.

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That they're they're starving.

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And it really supports digestive health. So the nipple bucket satisfies biology.

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Lowered their.

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Anxiety and.

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Maybe better supported.

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Digestive health without sacrificing weight gain. So what is the kind of application.

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Here for for dairy managers.

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And what certainly can can we do? If you sort of summarize this, the pros open bucket.

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Faster chore times.

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You can feed calves much faster because they drink much faster.

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They have higher early starter intake.

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But you have this.

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Looser.

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Feces, increased anxiety and frustration.

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The pros for the nipple.

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Bucket, you know, kind of.

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Mirrors.

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This natural biology. It really helped cut some of these abnormal behaviors in half. And it seems to that you.

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Have calmer calves.

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You know, we all like calm calves and calves that are not rambunctious. So maybe the nipple bucket feeder does something to to calm the calves.

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However.

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It's going to take you longer to feed them.

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That's there's no doubt about that.

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And you maybe have a delayed spike in.

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Starter.

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Intake. So a few things to sort of think about. So what are the practical implications. What are what are we going to do. So how or what do we do. So you can transition to nipple buckets. So adopting this method may improve calf welfare and reduce harmful hen sucking behaviors.

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I think we're all for that. I'm all for trying.

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To prevent calves with sucking on each other. We always see things, happen like that.

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In in our dairy herd as well. Really reframes maybe some starter intake.

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So I don't really panic over low pre weaning.

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Starter.

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Intake. But the data really showed from this study that it did not impact average daily gain. You know.

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Calves were all gaining.

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The same. And probably the biggest thing.

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Is monitoring.

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The weaning transition. So keep an eye on calf behavior.

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And performance.

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Post weaning. You know, we just to make sure that the calves that had.

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Lower starter intake did not create a.

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Lag in solid feed transition. I think that's one of the big things is trying to transition into solid feed and and how you do that. Obviously it's important to look at those calves no matter what you're doing. But I thought this was an interesting study. You know, I use nipple buckets and we use some nipple.

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Feeders when we're feeding our.

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Calves and.

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Really never thought about.

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It. I'm I'm interested with this. The sucking reflex, though. I don't know if I see that all the time. It seems maybe the calves that are drinking.

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Faster.

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Seem to not feel full, but I think that's that's maybe what it all comes down to is if the calves are feeling full, they're not going to go suck on something else in the pan.

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Or another.

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Calf within the pan. And I'm all about that. We've we've had.

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Our fair share of.

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Issues with that and some milking cows that are still sucking on each other. So any way that I can help reduce that is, is a plus. So maybe I need to go back and look at my feeding.

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Program and, and make sure that we're.

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Feeding calves enough.

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So they're full.

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And providing.

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Starter at.

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All times. So if they're full they go.

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Interact with the starter as well as water free choice.

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So with that, I hope you learned a few things about nipple buckets and bucket feedings of calves. Kind of is an interesting study to see. What happened and I don't know.

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Maybe the jury's still out there.

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Whether you should use a bucket.

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Or a nipple feeder.

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You want to feed calves fast?

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The bucket sure is nice.

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And with that, I think we'll leave.

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It there for.

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Today. And do you have any questions, comments, or scathing rebuttals? Feel free to contact me at the newsroom. That's tag demo s r om at. Edu, find us on the web. University of Minnesota Livestock Extension or and Rock dairy. And with that happy feeding camps. But you.