Non-replacement dairy calf options
Feedlotting dairy steers can produce a high quality product …
The true cost of calf deaths
For every dead calf, there are about five sick ones.
'Shocking' find of hundreds of dead cows and calves in offal pit on Northland farm
Animal rights group Farmwatch says it has discovered an open offal pit on a Northland farm full of hundreds of cows and calves. Some have had their throats slit.
Dairy’s ‘dirty secret’: it's still cheaper to kill male calves than to rear them
Dairy farms need female cows to produce milk but with little demand for male calves many farmers can’t afford to keep them beyond birth.
Calf milk quality highly variable
Land O’Lakes study confirms even pasteurized waste milk suffers from quality issues.
By: John Vogel
Source: Farm Progress Daily
Link: http://www.americanagriculturist.com/dairy/calf-milk-quality-highly-variable
B.C. family under investigation after buying injured calves from dairy farm
Cici Life Farm Sanctuary is being scrutinized for transporting two injured bull calves
By: TYLER HARPER
Source: Surrey Now-Leader
Link: https://www.surreynowleader.com/news/b-c-family-under-investigation-after-buying-injured-calves-from-dairy-farm/
Dairy Calf Workshops Set for December
Penn State’s Extension Dairy Team will present a series of workshops to help producers learn how successful calf and heifer management can enhance the profitability and sustainability of their operations.
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Source: Lancaster Farming
Link: http://www.lancasterfarming.com/unpublished/dairy-calf-workshops-set-for-december/article_210bd844-a365-5e40-a7b8-665427a49d60.html
Calves taken, cows made pregnant for milk: Animal welfare protest targets dairy industry
Newborn calves being taken from their mothers and cows being impregnated so they produce milk are part of the dairy industry too few Kiwis know about, SAFE says.
By: Tess Nichol
Source: NZ Herald
Link: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11943587
Few farmers killing calves rather than upgrading or building loading pens
A minority of dairy farmers are choosing to kill unwanted bobby calves on farms themselves rather than meet new rules to house and load them alive before their collection. By: GERALD PIDDOCK
Dairy farmers moving to 'good returns' from beef calves
Demand for beef calves is driving down the number of bobby calves being processed and providing a lucrative side business for dairy farmers.