The effects of rearing calves outdoors using calf jackets on performance and immune responses with a view to developing management procedures to improve the health and welfare of calves was investigated in a study at grange the study showed that rearing calves outdoors using calf jackets had no beneficial effect on calf performance. Health and management of the nursing calf karla h jenkins cow calf specialist brian l vander ley veterinary epidemiologist this process should be repeated every week to two weeks so that the older calves are not housed with the younger calves as it is the older calves that infect younger calves. Producers should work with the herd veterinarian to design a calf health management program including a sound colostrum management program a sound vaccination program for replacement heifers and cows protocols for handling newborn calves and protocols for the daily monitoring of calves to detect disease and make treatment decisions. The calf management of health dec 02 2020 posted by c s lewis library text id d29bb948 online pdf ebook epub library calfs life fig 8 weaning is a stressful time for suckled calves particularly those born in the spring environmental challenges such as heat stress program deficits in calf growth and health and those impacts are transgenerational introduction there is now little argument