OPERATING STATEMENTS

• Custom Raising Dairy Replacements since 1978
• Capacity of 3500 Head
• Charge by Day or Pound
• Active in DCHA Nationally – Leadership, Organization, and Continuing Education
• Quality AI Program – Heat Watch System
• Reports and Charts for Gain, Wither Height, Deaths, Culls and Conception Rate
• High Level of Biosecurity
• Consulting Veterinarian/Dr. Sam Evans
• Consulting Nutritionist/Dr. Holly Ballantine
• 60 Day Quarantine on Arrival

 

ADVANTAGES OF CONTRACT RAISING

1. You receive a quality heifer that has been grown at the proper rates to freshen at 24 months in proper body condition.
2. We GUARANTEE heifers to meet or exceed all criteria for a quality springer including weight gain, skeleton growth, death loss, age at calving, and AI. This guarantee is good only if heifer arrives with the right weight and wither height for age with health events before arrival recorded on permanent record.
3. Dairy can spend heifer raising time on breeding and management of milking herd.
4. Free up space on dairy to milk more cows.
5. Laranda Farms has a reproduction team dedicated 100% to AI.
6. Cost effective --- do a superior job in:
• Age at Calving
• Growth Rate
• Skeleton Growth
• Reproduction
• Mastitiis Control
than most dairies can accomplish on their own.
7. Spend extra time with family.