@conference {40327,
	title = {Selection for resistance to parasites in sheep},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {51},
	year = {1991},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {291-294},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {A milk replacer containing 40\% non-milk constituents (V) was  compared with a proprietary milk replacer (M) in two calf-rearing  systems (H and R) using calves at pasture.   Forty-eight, four week old Friesian calves were allocated to one of four  treatments (in two replicates) and offered reconstituted milk replacers  (140 g/l) : MH and VH, 81 daily for 3 weeks plus ad lib meal for  two weeks; MR and VR, 41 daily for 5 weeks.   Replacer M gave significantly (P<0.01) greater liveweight gains over the  first 3 weeks for calves in treatment H but not in R. Treatment H  calves showed a temporary growth check following weaning and again  following the termination of meal feeding. Treatment R calves showed a  progressive increase in daily rates of gain during the experiment.   By 5-6 months of age the mean body weights of calves in all four groups  were similar indicating that there were no adverse carry-over effects of  replacer V, or the system of feeding. Significant savings in the cost  of calf rearing are therefore possible.  },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Parker AGH}
}
