For the Livestock Owner we offer the following services:

  • Reliable grazing properties sourced
  • Increase milk production with heifers off-farm
  • Regular heifer monitoring
  • Animal health treatments
  • Weight Gain Performance based
  • Target 700g/hd/day gain
  • Dry season & Drought Strategies
  • Specialist heifer backgrounding
  • Coordinated reporting & management – individual & mob
  • Dehorning
  • Joining program flexibility
  • Mineral supplementation
  • Herd Status recognized
  • Proven reliability & commitment to the industry

THE BENEFITS:
Correct age at first calving has a large effect on the number of replacements required for the herd. Heifer Management Services assists the dairy farmer to achieve correct weight for age heifers.

The associated costs of contract rearing your heifers reaching optimum weight for age has the net benefit of increased lactations, milk production and a well grown heifer with improved fertility and first service conception rates increased by up to 17%.

An increase in your heifer liveweight by 80kg, increases her lifetime production by 1,816 litres.

Backgrounding heifers frees up valuable milk production land resources, allowing heifers to grow to their full potential within a controlled and measured system.

OUR GOALS TO GOOD HEIFER MANAGEMENT:

  • To reach breed target liveweights, frame score and condition.
  • Aim for 90% of mature weight at 22 months of age.
  • Consistent growth rate, minimising compensatory gains.
  • Reduce the number of heifer culls.
  • Reduce calving problems.
  • Produce a heifer that can compete in the herd.
  • Produce a heifer that will achieve optimal lifetime production with more lactations + more litres of milk.
  • Improved fertility with ideal liveweight.
  • We recognise the need to achieve high production in first lactation.
  • Assist to gain an earlier return on your heifer investment.