Proper care of newborn calves is always the best choice. If recent phone calls are any indication, the high price of beef apparently has producers re-thinking the value of Holstein bull calves. The ...
The resulting crossbred dairy-beef calf, whether bull or heifer, is destined for beef production, just as a Holstein bull calf would be. In addition to improved conception rates and a lower cost per ...
German researchers Kipp et al. (2015) reported at the 2015 Interbull Annual Meeting, held earlier this month in Orlando, Fla., that they discovered a new genetic defect in Holstein dairy cattle. The ...
Calves included in the present study were sourced from a large-scale dairy farm in Lingwu, Ningxia, China. Sixty one-day-old Holstein male calves showing similar body weight at birth (39.5 ± 4.2 kg, n ...