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Chapter 13: Heifer-Raising Options

This chapter provides an in-depth look at heifer-raising, covering essential aspects like appropriate housing facilities, care requirements for newborn calves, and methods to ensure the health of pre-weaned and breeding-age heifers. Topics include clean and dry resting surfaces, well-ventilated environments, vaccination programs, and socialization techniques for building immunity. It also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of custom heifer-raising versus traditional methods, focusing on resource concentration and production control.

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Chapter 13: Heifer-Raising Options

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  1. Chapter 13: Heifer-Raising Options © 2005 Thomson Delmar Learning. All rights reserved.

  2. Key Chapter Concepts: • Appropriate housing facilities • Essentials of heifer-raising • Custom heifer-raising • Heifer-raising vs. custom heifer-raising

  3. Appropriate Housing Facilities • Clean and dry resting surface • Comfortable resting surface • Shade • Well-ventilated • Draft-free • Adequate space • Sufficient access to feed and water • Vaccination program • Fly control

  4. Essentials of Heifer-Raising — Requirements • Accessible treatment area • Method to monitor weight and height • Parasite control program • Access to self-locking mangers/freestalls • Time to learn to use self-locking stalls

  5. Essentials of Heifer-Raising — Newborn Calves • Immediate identification • Dip navels • Feed colostrum within 30 minutes of birth • Separate from mother within one hour • Warming box • Protection from adult manure

  6. Essentials of Heifer-Raising — Before Weaning Calves • Sanitized calf-feeding equipment • Starter and water at two days old • Avoid hay • Pasteurize waste milk before feeding • Health program to control coccidian

  7. Essentials of Heifer-Raising — After Weaning Calves • Socializing to build immunity • Socializing to learn to compete • 5 to 8 animals per group • Similar sizes housed together • No more than two months in age difference grouped together

  8. Essentials of Heifer-Raising — Breeding-Age Heifer • Easy method for artificial insemination • Easy method for insertion of rumen magnet

  9. Essentials of Heifer-Raising — Pre-Calving Heifer • Transition to adult cow housing • Transition to adult cow feed • First hoof trimming and foot bath

  10. Custom Heifer-Raising • Advantage • Concentration of resources on milking enterprise Disadvantage • Unable to control production of animals

  11. Heifer-Raising vs. Custom Heifer-Raising

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