Raise Herd Improvements Rather than Herd Replacements With White Oak Mills’ Calf & Heifer Improvement Program
Properly feeding dairy calves from birth to 23 months can significantly help prevent health challenges as the calf growers. Improperly fed calves and heifers may grow poorly and fail to reach breeding weight at the desired age, resulting in later calving and less milk production. Economic analysis indicates that heifers older than 23 months at first calving cost producers $55 per additional month, not including the lost lifetime milk production.
We believe heifers are “improvement animals” rather than simply “replacement animals.” Serving as the foundation of tomorrow’s lactating herd, heifers definitely are your most important investment for the future.
White Oak’s comprehensive program includes high-quality White Oak feeds, nutrition and management practices designed to help you effectively raise superior dairy animals.
The White Oak Calf & Heifer Improvement Program is flexible, convenient and a cost-effective way to ensure:
- Strong, healthy herd-improvement animals
- Proper growth rates, which allow well-conditioned heifers to be moved into the milking herd at 22-23 months of age, and
- Optimum profitability
CENTURY Calf Feeds
Super Calf 21% – Medicated – #702
- 21% protein and high energy to achieve maximum growth and development at an early stage
- Includes flaked beans and Nutri-Catalyst, a rumen modulator to enhance feed intake and improve gut health
- Medicated with Rumensin
Calf Starter 18% – Medicated – #700
- Formulated to meet the calf’s nutritional requirements
- Precisely blended to ensure excellent palatability, high growth rate and balanced nutrition
- Medicated with Rumensin
Calf Grower 16% – Medicated – #705
- To be fed from 2 to 4 months of age
- Balanced nutrition promotes efficient development
- Medicated with Rumensin
CENTURY Heifer Feeds
16% or 18% Heifer Pellets – #726 / #728
- A complete pellet fed at 4 to 6 lbs/hd/day
- Two protein levels to match your available forages
- Rumensin included for greater feed efficiency and gain
- Balanced nutrition
35% Heifer Builder – #792
- All-natural 35% protein and high energy supplement targeted for use by heifers from 5 months of age to springing (1 lb feed rate)
- High vitamin and mineral levels
- A supplement to utilize with on-farm corn and forages
- Rumensin added to increase average daily gain
Heifer VMR 1333 Premix – #842
- Provides a high level of trace minerals and vitamins for optimal growth and health of dairy improvement heifers (0.3 lb feed rate)
- Use with on-farm corn and protein
- Rumensin added to increase average daily gain
