Dairy
Despite a lot of animals already housed for the winter, farmers should consider weighing young stock before fully housing the entire herd.
Weighing and acting on underweight heifers and heifer calves should be on the agenda, especially as the weather turns a bit harsher...
As we are now into second half of the year, cow performance will begin to eventually drop off, but there are a number of metrics we...
The first of your heifer calves born In late January and early February will be coming up on six months of age, and at this stage, it might..
Your replacement weanling heifers are now coming into their first winter and now that cows and young stock are coming in for the winter...
At this time of the year, you should be assessing how your heifer calves are doing, when all has settled after the rush of the breeding...
Dairy Technical
Weighing heifers, treating parasites and parlour training are all jobs that can be completed in the coming days and weeks with heifers.
As we begin entering a different phase of the year on farms, there are a number of jobs dairy farmers should get ticked off their to-do list.
