Heifer Management

Programs and Opportunities

• Eastern Wisconsin Dairy Team's "'Raising Quality Dairy Replacements" Seminars

Publications

• Reducing Heifer Cost and Environmental Impact (9 pages, 63 KB)
• Feeding Strategies for Optimum Replacement Heifer Growth (14 pages, 34 KB)
• Innovations in Dairy Replacement Heifer Management (12 pages, 64 KB)
• Nutrition and Environment; Improving Heifer Growth (17 pages, 39 KB)
• Optimum Growth Rates for Holstein Replacement Heifers (10 pages, 39 KB)
• Paradoxes Associated with Early Calving of Replacement Heifers (10 pages, 39 KB)
• Quality Control Systems in Dairy Replacement Heifer Nutrition (15 pages, 62 KB)
• The Potential to Limit Feed Dairy Replacement Heifers (8 pages, 50 KB)
• Distillers Grains for Dairy Heifers (2 pages, 258 KB)
• Heifers and Bunk Management (2 pages, 254 KB)
• Strategies to Improve Feed Effic. in Dairy Replacement Heifer Feeding Programs (9 pages, 29 KB)
• Unique Aspects of Managing Heifers in Free Stall Barns (2 pages, 256 KB)
• Heat Stress in Heifers (2 pages, 242 KB)
• Limit Feeding and Rumen Capacity in Dairy Heifers (2 pages, 53 KB)

Workshop Presentations

• Limit Feeding Dairy Heifers (30 slides, 7.0 MB)
• Reproductive Management of Dairy Heifers (19 pages, 971 KB)
• Keeping Heifer Raising Profit Margins Profitable (8 pages, 176 KB)
• Smooth Transitions: Feeding Heifers for a Smooth Transition Into Lactation (14 pages, 599 KB)
• Caring for the Pre-fresh Heifers: Vaccination and Care Strategies from the Womb to the Parlor (6 pages, 61 KB)
• Cattle Handling Options for Heifers (6 pages, 680 KB)
• Observations of Custom Heifer Raisers by WI Dairy Producers (30 pages, 2,554 KB)