Year
2024
Source
Care4Dairy

Heifer Best Practice Guide

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SUMMARY

Best practice farms optimise the quality and performance of their heifers by providing tailored nutrition in a clean, safe and enriched environment which supports optimal health, welfare and human-animal interactions.

Best practice farms optimise the quality and performance of their heifers by providing a clean, safe and enriched environment which supports optimal health, welfare and human- animal interactions.

Best practice farms optimise the health and welfare of their heifers through veterinary consultation, planning and documenting their prophylactic and responsive health and medical management protocols. 

Best practice farms have confident heifers who express a range of positive natural behaviours by providing an enriched indoor & outdoor environment with kind, animal- centred human- animal interactions.

CONTACT

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