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Cutting Costs In Calf Rearing, N A. Scott
Cutting Costs In Calf Rearing, N A. Scott
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
RAISING calves as herd replacements and as a sideline to provide added income is becoming increasingly popular.
This is particularly noticeable since the inception of the Artificial Breeding Scheme whereby farmers are at liberty to breed herd replacements from their most productive cows and use semen from beef breeds for the poorer types.
Foster-Mothering Of Calves, Maurice C. Cullity, K. W. Simes
Foster-Mothering Of Calves, Maurice C. Cullity, K. W. Simes
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
"SAVE those calves" is a slogan which has been used frequently in propaganda to reduce the slaughter of heifers when it is thought that the supply of replacement animals to our dairy herds might be unduly low.
Although there is no fear of this at present, the wastage of calves both heifers and bulls, in Western Australia is unduly large.