Calf looses in Tekirdağ dairy cattle enterprises

The aim of this research was determine calf losses in Tekirdag Dairy Cattle Enterprises, by this aim datas collected through from 207 face-to-face questionnaire by dairy farms selected according to chance. In the questionnaire, the structural features of the enterprises and the breeding practices were examined, and the calf maintenance, feeding and deaths in the enterprises were evaluated. The calf dead rate detemined and the relationship between other traits evaluated. Numbers of total animals capacity by groups 1-5 heads, 6-10 heads, 11-20 heads respectively were 15.9%, %26.6, %31.4, %18.4 and %7.7. The education degree of dairy farmers were; 71.5% primary school, 14% secondary school, 12.1% high school and 2.4% university degree. 98.6% of farmer were feed cakves by colostrums in 6 hours after birth, 98.1% of breeders feed calves by milk instead of milk replacement. 95.7% of breeders use milk bottle feeding and 98.1% of the breeders fed calves twice a day. The rate of vaccination of septicemia to pregnant animals is 45.9%, the rate of application of septicemia serum to calves after birth is 69.1%. Therate of enterprises with calf death rate of 5% is 33.8%, 48.5% of dead calves have a longivity between 1-7 days. The 18.2% milking cows, which were loss their calves shown that they see this case in future. The relationship between The calf dead rate and the nımber claves which dead by calf diarrhea was statistical important (p≤0.01) and the correlation between two parameters were (-0.24) (p≤0.01).