Dairy Calf Reseach on Social Housing Benefits

Dairy Calf Reseach on Social Housing Benefits
Photo by Megan Bean

October 18, 2013

Senior animal and dairy science majors Kelsey Hart, left, of Nesbit and Karley Parker of Ellisville measure a Holstein calf at the Mississippi State Dairy. They are participating in assistant professor Stephanie Hill-Ward's study of the benefits, in growth and development, of social housing for dairy cows. Hill-Ward hypothesizes that calves housed in pairs will grow faster than individually housed calves.