Heifer calving at the correct age

Dairy replacement heifers are probably the most important animals on a farm producing milk, but at the same time represent a huge cost to rear. It is therefore of vital importance that farmers manage their heifer rearing wisely and calve them around 24 months to achieve the most efficient financial gain from their investments. In fact, research in the UK has shown that calving heifers at 24 months has the ability to increase the overall lifetime performance of the animal by 13%. Around the wo