From Calf to Heifer
From Calf to Heifer - A Practical Guide for Rearing Young Stock
Author(s): Jan Hulsen & Berrie Klein SworminkRearing calves into heifers is a major investment in terms of money and labour. Your dual aims are to turn your heifer into a strong, productive dairy cow and to use labour, housing and feed efficiently. If you achieve these aims, you’ll cut the costs of rearing per kilogram of milk.
From calf to heifer covers the basics of successful rearing, shows you how to control risks and helps you to structure your work so that each calf automatically receives the best treatment. Calf to heifer is full of sensible tips on how to improve the rearing of calves and yearlings. Written clearly and illustrated with useful photos and Marleen Felius’s splendid drawings, this informative handbook is very user-friendly and down to earth.
This book is also available in the following languages:
- Deutsch
- Francais
- Espanol
- Nederlands
Availability: In Print
Publication date: 2006
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 16.7 x 23.5cm
Weight: Unknown
Extent: 40pp
ISBN: 978-90-75280-95-1
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Producing dairy cows
Index
- Investing in the future
- Age and appropriate care
- Working with young stock signals
- Times of risk
- Standard Procedures
- Before birth
- The reception area
- Removing the calf
- Colostrum: a magic potion
- Individual pens
- Scours
- Treatment of scours
- Keeping calves healthy Calf milk
- Resistance and hygiene
- Banishing infectious agents
- Treatments: careful and clean
- Solid food
- Group pen
- Ready for weaning
- Assessing condition and rumen
- Vulnerable until the sixth month
- Respiratory problems
- Growth, weight and condition
- Grazing period
- Grazing naturally
- Getting in calf
- Pregnancy testing
- Look, think, act
- Rumen fill and dung score
- Hoof health
- Mobility
- Critical observation
- Knowing and doing
- Suitable cubicles
- Final check
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