heifers

Feeding the sodium humate additive to the breeding Holstein heifers up to 5 months of age improved feed intake and growth performance.
18-12-2023 | Article

Sodium humate in heifer diets has real potential

Reduced feed intake, exacerbated inflammation and oxidative stress seem to account for a large portion of the long-term consequences of an impaired transition period on cow performance. Photo: Van Assendelft Fotografie
01-12-2023 | Article

Transition period: From improving performance to feed intake

A simple way to monitor height of heifers is to either know the height of the inventory or simply paint a line on the inventory for required height for insemination. Photo: Snorri Sigurdsson
05-09-2023 | Expert opinion

Are your heifers growing fast enough?

Heifers feed more slowly, ruminate less, are lower in the pecking order, can be easily chased away from feed space or lying areas, so need time to adjust. Photo: Canva
07-03-2023 | Article

Nearly a fifth of heifers fail to reach second lactation

Although the legal requirements is to provide colostrum within 6 hours, the ability to absorb antibodies will be declining after just 120 minutes. Photo: Anne van der Woude
19-04-2022 | Article

Calf health: Get colostrum management right

David Macalister: “This system offers far more flexibility than milking twice a day.” Photo: Macalister Farm
22-09-2021 | Article

Dairy farmers talk about the benefits of once-a-day milking

With solubility, palatability and improving mineral intake in mind, researchers evaluated how sulphate, organic and hydroxychloride trace minerals weathered the weather based on different rainfall scenarios. Photo: Henk Riswick
09-09-2021 | Article

Ruminants: How do trace mineral sources weather the weather?

A dry cow area at a Chinese dairy farm. Photo: CDMTCC
12-04-2021 | Article

China: Preventing heat stress in non-milking animals

Bremer can now deliver large groups of approximately 30 heifers that have been milked for 3 to 6 weeks. Due to the structured rearing, they are very uniform and highly productive. Bremer now makes ¬ 150 to ¬ 200 each more than before. Photo: Henk Riswick
16-12-2020 | Article

Farm report, Germany: Less labour, higher animal value

Photo: Henk Riswick
15-04-2020 | News

Unexpected feasibility of sex-sorted sperm