First, start with a milk replacer for colostrum.  Follow the instructions. Switch to regular replacer when instructions advise. Never use a bottle, use a nipple bucket and in a few days or a week teach it to drink straight out of the bucket, no nipple.  Feed it where it has to stick its head through rails or some set up like a feeder.

I use to feed up to 10-40 calves using this method twice a day. The quicker off the nipple bucket, the lesser chance of scours. It is also a lot less work washing out buckets than cleaning bottles and nipples.

The way you train to the bucket is to dip a nipple in the milk hold it over the bucket, get it sucking on it and then get its head further in the bucket and lower the nipple until it is no longer in its mouth and it is sucking the milk direct from the bucket.

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