Table 9.1.

Health disorders, and average daily gain of Brown Swiss calves receiving two or four liters of good quality colostrum and their milk yield as cows^a.

Item	2L	4L
Health disorders	8b	5c
Average Daily Gain, kg/d	0.80	1.03
Milk yield, kg
First lactation	7,848w	7,526w
Second lactation	8,167w	9,516x

^a 37 Brown Swiss heifers received 2 L and 31 heifers received 4 L of good quality colostrum. 28 heifers fed 2 L and 27 heifers fed 4  L became lactating cows.

^bPneumonia (n = 3), ulcers (n = 2), and poor health (n = 3).

^cCoronavirus (n = 4); navel infection (n = 1).

^W,XMeans in the same row with different superscripts differ (P<0.05).

Adapted from Faber et al., 2005.⁵