The role of Heifer Management Services is to co-ordinate and implement the distribution of livestock on a weight gain basis and to mediate between the owners of the livestock and the backgrounders.
Heifer Management Services offers the dairy farmer the option to background their heifers and optimise growth for maximum productivity.
Established in February 1997 Heifer Management Services has extensive “hands-on” experience in backgrounding dairy heifers.
Our service is one of reliability and flexibility. We find suitable properties/backgrounders that have the ability to grow heifers within contractual guidelines.
Backgrounding is “performance based” and heifers are weighed regularly to monitor progress with weight feedback sheets forwarded to the dairy farmer and the backgrounder to keep them informed of individual animals progress.
We manage the growing of your heifers to careful guidelines to ensure good growth. Prospective dairy farmers and backgrounders are encouraged to contact us to find out the advantages of backgrounding livestock.
We endeavour to provide the backgrounder with sound and healthy livestock and we appreciate the care and diligence that the backgrounder in turn provides in the performance of these livestock. We value the backgrounders input and we assist them to achieve the target objectives.
