OVERVIEW OF BASIC PROGRAM

ARRIVAL

1. All heifers are weighed individually on arrival. Wither height recorded or IGG tested when age appropriate.
2. PI tested prior to delivery.
3. Have facilities to receive day old calves. The first two months after arrival we double the incoming weight. Death Loss less than 4% annually.
4. Calves move to the Weaning Barn. This facility has twenty-eight (28) pens holding six (6) heifers each. They stay for thirty (30) days. Average daily gain 1.60.
5. Out of the Weaning Barn calves enter the Calf Pens. These are outside lots holding twelve (12) per pen for thirty (30) days. Average daily gain 1.70.
6. At four (4) months of age calves are moved to pastures forty (40) head per pasture with portable shades.
7. Larger arrival groups on pasture with a maximum of forty (40) head with double fence between owners for sixty (60) days. They are rotational grazed during grazing season.
8. Sixty (60) days after arrival, heifers are moved and grouped by size and age with a maximum of eighty (80) head. All pastures are rotational grazed during grazing season.

BREEDING

1. Booster vaccines are given thirty (30) days prior to breeding
2. Age, weight, and wither heights are recorded. Average daily gain 1.90.
3. Heifers must have three (3) breedings or be confirmed bred before leaving breeding herd.
4. Pregnancy checking is done on a regular basis at approximately thirty-five (35) and sixty (60) days.

CONFIRMED BRED

1. Heifers are rotational grazed during grazing season.
2. Hay is fed free choice along with concentrate.
3. Average daily gain 1.80, Average wither height 55 inches @ seven (7) months bred excluding crossbreds.

RETURN TO DAIRY

1. Heifers are pregnancy checked.
2. Weight and wither heights are recorded.

WORM AND FLY CONTROL

1. Dr. Maxey Nolan, Entomologist, manages this program.
2. All pastures in Laranda Farms' facilities are high and dry.
3. We have a very low mastitis rate.

FEEDING PROGRAM

1. Dr. Holly Ballantine, Nutritionist, manages this program.
2. Heifers are rotational grazed during grazing season.
3. sHay is fed free choice. Balance of feed TMR utilizing by-products when possible.