Table 4.

Data on standard calf feeding on the 100 visited farms

Variable	Category	Number of farms1		P-value
		Case	Control
Milk feeding	Whole milk	44	40
	Milk replacer	1	5	0.89
	Both	5	5	0.20
Feeding waste milk to calves	No	8	9
	Only to male calves	24	24	0.84
	To all calves (males and females)	17	17	1.00
	No answer	1	0
Quantity of milk fed	Ad libitum	2	2
	Restricted (10 to 12% of calf BW)	48	48
Type of feeding	Bucket with artificial teat	49	46
	Bucket without artificial teat	0	2	0.54
	Automated milk feeder	1	2	0.99
Cleaning of bucket after each feeding	No	2	1
	Yes	48	49	0.62
Cleaning of bucket	With cleaning agents	9	15
	Only water	37	35	0.35
Buckets shared by calves	No	11	12
	Yes	39	38
Weaning age (wk)	Median2	10.0	9.0	0.63
	IR3 (25 to 75%)	8.0 to 12.0	8.0 to 12.0
Access to hay from wk 2 of life	No	9	9
	Yes	41	38	0.75
	Variable	0	3	0.69
Access to concentrates from first 3 wk of life	No	12	13
	Yes	33	35	0.28
	Variable	5	2	0.26
Access to water preweaning	No	7	4
	Free access	19	22	0.42
	Restricted access	24	24	0.73

¹Case farms are farms with the presence of diarrhea; control farms are farms without calf diarrhea.

²Variable was not categorized; continuous variable.

³IR = interquartile range.