Specialist calf unit to match herd demands

摘要

The need to rear more replacements, with an emphasis on health and welfare, was uppermost in establishing a new unit for 450 calves at Balmangan Farms in Scotland.The dairy business has grown from a 60-cow herd established by Mac Wallace in the 1970s to a business in which he has now been joined by son Duncan, running 1350 cows in three herds on 2000 acres.Numbers for the pedigree Holstein part of the herd at Balmangan have steadily increased from 600 cows in 2001 to today's 1000 cows, and while cattle have been bought-in, the aim is to breed as manyherd replacements as possible - both pedigree and for the two 175-cow commercial herds run on two of the business' six farms.