Jeremy Platt and the team at Lea Hall Farm, Wimboldsley, Cheshire, are focused on solid heifer performance to average 23 months at first calving. Setting the foundations for this is good colostrum management at birth: calves are fed three litres of pasteurised colostrum within the first two hours. All colostrum is tested, pasteurised and frozen, […]
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