Once-a-day feeding proves very successful for rearing healthy dairy replacement heifers in County Tyrone
Father and son team Kenny and Kyle McIlwaine run a crossbred dairy herd of Fleckvieh x Holsteins and Montbeliard x Holsteins on the outskirts of Newtownstewart, producing milk at an annual average yield of 9,000 litres/cow from twice- a-day milking system.
Calf morbidity and mortality is at an all-time low. [...]
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