2022 Dairy Star Spring Calf & Heifer Special Edition

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Calf & Heifer Special Edition

March 26, 2022

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The Peters – (from leŌ) Rory, Bryce, Russell and Roger – stand in their freestall barn March 7 at their dairy near Chaseburg, Wisconsin. The Peters family milks about 300 cows and raises calves in their newly constructed calf barn.

Barn increases consistency, saves labor for Peters family

By Abby Wiedmeyer abby.w@dairystar.com

CHASEBURG, Wis. – Calves at the Peters family’s farm are nishing their rst winter of being raised in a new facility. Bryce Peters said the new system has saved on labor and increased consistency.

“My philosophy is that a job should be easy enough for a 70-yearold man to do and simple enough for a high schooler to do,” Peters said.

Peters farms with his two uncles,

Rory and Rogers, and his cousin, Russell. The family milks about 300 cows near Chaseburg. Calf chores are mainly handled between Peters and Roger. Rory is the herdsman, and Russell is in charge of feeding and also manages two chicken barns.

The new calf barn was on the family’s wish list for a few years. It has been in operation since Thanksgiving 2021.

The new facility stands 34 feet by 156 feet and houses 65 individual calf stalls. Calves are separated with free-standing boxes. The building slopes 1 inch every 12 feet from one end to the other, and both sides slope 3 inches toward the center where liquid runs down a gutter to a drain.

“I wanted this to be really easy

to clean,” Peters said. “That’s why I went with the stand-alone boxes, and the whole barn is sloped.”

Calves are bedded with straw and wear jackets in the colder months.

Curtains adorn the sides, and the barn is equipped with tube ventilation and peak fans. The tube ventilation has been the biggest learning curve for the Peters family so far.

“We used to run the tubes all the time,” Peters said. “There was too much air ow, and it got too cold in here. We lost a few calves this winter.”

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has four peak fans. Two are programmed to turn on when the temperature in the barn

ing and blowing outside, but the environment is always nice in here,” Peters said.

“If we had an open we would still “It seems like if you get peak, get snow in here.” said they over a certain density of mightPeters try to use the weaned calves in a pen, tubes next winter if they can gure you start nding the out how to keep the calves less than weak calves.”

3 weeks old warm enough.

BRYCE PETERS, DAIRY FARMER Previously, the reaches 25 degrees, and at 40 calves were housed in three degrees, the other two kick spots at the home farm about 1 on. Peters said the closed mile away. The calves stayed peaks with fans help keep the in the calving pen where they elements out of the barn in were born for up to a week. inclement weather and allows They were then moved to a them to keep the temperature tiestall barn at the home farm. more consistent.

They stayed in a pen there for “It can be cold and snow- a couple weeks before movABBY WIEDMEYER/DAIRY STAR

Calves are housed in stand-alone boxes March 7 at the Peters family farm near Chaseburg, Wisconsin. The new calf barn has allowed the Peters family to be more consistent and save Ɵme when caring for calves.

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The new barn stands 34 feet 156 feet and houses 65 calf pens at the Peters family dairy near Chaseburg, Wisconsin.

ing again.

“We were always short on space,” Peters said. “We were moving calves so many times.”

The new calf barn sits adjacent to the milking facility, allowing calves to be moved from the calving pen to their individual box in the calf barn

where they stay until weaned.

Calves are fed pasteurized milk with a Milk Taxi.

Now that the calves are so close to the milk cows, the taxi is walked to the milkhouse. The high somatic cell cows are milked last, right into the taxi.

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ed to get rid of with the old system was the 5-gallon pails,” Peters said. “We were hauling milk every day from 12-20 pails in the back of the truck. That alone saves me 45 minutes per day.”

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Bryce Peters looks over standard operaƟng procedures March 7 in his new calf barn near Chaseburg, Wisconsin. Peters said the new barn has saved at least 10 hours a week in labor.

90 days. When the calves are weaned, Peters removes every other divider so the calves are transitioned in pairs.

“I think that makes a difference because when we wean them, nobody bellers,” Peters said. “It really helps relieve stress on the calves.”

Peters said the main benets of the new facility are in the labor savings, and he estimates a time savings of 10 hours per week.

Standard operating procedures are posted to help keep things consistent and simple.

“When we were planning the barn, I really made sure everything was handy to do,” Peters said.

With the calves in their new home, Peters said it freed up space at the home farm where the calves were previously housed. This allowed them to make the weaned pen bigger, which has helped that age group grow.

“We tripled the size of our weaning pen which really helped out,” Peters said. “It seems like if you get over a certain density of weaned calves in a pen, you start nding the weak calves.

Everyone does better this way.”

There are a few odds and ends to nish on the barn, but the family is looking forward to warmer weather and watching calves grow in their new facility.

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Raise youngstock as investment, not expense

James presents new thoughts on calf nutrition

By Danielle Nauman danielle.n@dairystar.com

WISCONSIN DELLS, Wis. – Many dairy farmers are rethinking the way calves are raised on their farms.

Raising calves should be viewed as an investment rather than an expense according to Dr. Robert James of Virginia Tech, and he said producers need to keep in mind that in the end they will get what they pay for.

That was the take-home message of James’ presentation, “Rethinking Calf Nutrition,” March 17 at the Professional Dairy Producers annual business conference in Wisconsin Dells.

“The traditional view of calf nutrition is how quick can we get them weaned; let’s get that rumen developed,” James said. “The calf program is important to farm prot and sustainability. What does it really cost you to raise your calves? How do you optimize your return on that investment?”

James said the time to save money

on heifer raising is not during the calfhood stage, which is the time of peak growth, but to focus on growing heifers well enough to breed and calve in on time.

“I want to look at feeding calves the same way I look at feeding cows,” James said. “The goal is to meet the nutrient requirements for growth and maintenance. I want to achieve their genetic potential for growth. I want to give my calf team the tools they need to achieve success, for them to do their jobs well and to enjoy doing their jobs.”

James is a rm believer in ensuring calves receive pasteurized milk or high-quality milk replacer to meet their nutritional needs for growth rather than placing emphasis on calves eating large quantities of calf starter early on.

“The biology of pre-weaned calf nutrition says that calves don’t eat much starter for the rst weeks regardless of their liquid diet,” James said.

“Starter is not going to contribute very much to meeting their nutrient requirements. Their maintenance requirements are higher than older, bigger animals.

Let’s just forget about rumen development until after 4 weeks. That is not my goal for raising calves.”

James said calves should be gaining weight by the second week of life, and he likes to see calves with body condition to help provide reserves in

the event they would become sick.

James said while instinct might tell producers not to feed smaller calves as much milk, the reality is actually the opposite: Smaller calves, such as Jerseys, have higher nutritional needs for maintenance because of their smaller size.

The thermoneutral point for maintenance of calves is 68 degrees Fahrenheit, which requires nearly 3 quarts of milk for body maintenance for a 100-pound calf before any nutrition is available to the calf for growth.

“We have to meet their nutrient requirements,” James said. “People say they don’t want to feed all that milk to these calves, but what if you held your cows to 42 pounds of dry matter a day? What would happen to their production? Why don’t we have the same mindset with our calves.”

When choosing whether to feed whole milk or milk replacer, James said the cost of each should be determined and the logistics and labor involved with each, including the cost of production and pasteurization of waste milk.

When it comes to purchasing milk replacer, James said dairy farmers should buy quality milk replacer made with human-grade products.

“You can do either one and be successful,” James said.

Feeding whole milk provides more

fat and more protein to the calf, typically 30% fat and 26% protein on a powder basis. The drawback comes with maintaining quality and consistency.

“We need to maintain the quality of that milk from the teat of the cow to the mouth of that calf, and there is where the wheels fall off the wagon,” James said.

The other option to raising calves is to use custom calf growers, but James said not all calf growers are equal.

“I’m seeing an evolution of two different types of calf ranches. What I call the value ones, they are more expensive, but you get what you pay for,” James said. “Then there are the lowball ones. If somebody tells me they’re going to raise your calves for $2.50 a day, … you can do it, but you are going to get what you pay for.”

James’ greatest concerns about using custom calf growers are transportation and biosecurity.

“What does the consumer think if you put a 2-day-old calf on a trailer and ship them 24 hours to Texas or wherever,” James said. “Don’t ask me to defend that; it’s going to be very tough to do. The other is biosecurity. What do they do to ensure the biosecurity of your animals? You have a high level of herd health, but now they are going to comingle with a bunch of other heifers.”

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Barn brings Kunze’s calves to new level

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Since that day in late August 2021, Kunze has been happy with the new calf ban.

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By Danielle Nauman health is better. We can keep danielle.n@dairystar.com their bedding drier, and it is easier feeding them. In the ABBOTSFORD, Wis. bad weather, is easier to re– For several years, Kyle ally focus on how they are Kunze has wanted to im- doing.” prove the way the calves Kunze and his wife, are raised on his dairy farm Ashley, milk 50 cows along in Abbotsford. Last sum- with their two children, mer, he took the plunge and Rosie, 3, and Hudson, 11 created a calf facility. months.

“I have wanted to do this Prior to building the fafor a few years, but some- cility, Kunze housed calves thing else always seemed in hutches. to come up and caused me “About 80% of the time, those were “Calf health is better. great, but it alseemed like We can keep their ways no matter what we end up with bedding drier, and it is would some health probeasier feeding them.” lems in the cold, wet weather,” KunKYLE KUNZE, DAIRY FARMER ze said. “We are able to manage this to push building this back,” building to create a better Kunze said. “We moved the environment for both the rst group of calves in here calves and for us to care for the day before we started them.” corn silage last summer.”

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Moving calves from the outdoors to an indoor facility can create concerns about ventilating the building to avoid respiratory issues. Kunze said the building provides natural ventilation by having two large overhead doors for equipTurn to KUNZES | Page 13

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“I wanted to put in a positive-pressure air tube for additional ventilation as well but ran out of time before the cold weather set in,” Kunze said. “That is in the plans for this coming year, but honestly, the barn is doing great with the natural ventilation right now.”

Agri-Plastic partitions were used to create the calf pens in the barn. Kunze has 10 individual calf pens and three group pens to begin the calves’ transition after weaning. Then, the calves are moved to the heifer shed at about 4 months.

Kunze made sure the barn had ample space for storage of both feed and bedding. The barn has the exibility to add additional calf stalls. The calf barn is near the dairy barn, allowing for ease of transporting milk replacer mixed in the milkhouse and bringing newborn calves to the calf barn after birth.

Even though he has only been raising calves in the barn for just over six months, Kunze has been thrilled with the results. He said calves are gaining weight well and are healthier in general.

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Know when to breed a heifer

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Raising heifers is one of the biggest investments a dairy farmer can make, and the wait to reap a return on that investment by a heifer entering the milking herd can seem long.

Making the investment as efcient as possible without sacricing the heifer’s future production can be a ne line. Megan Lauber discussed that during her a presentation as part of a University of Wisconsin Extension Badger Dairy Insight webinar entitled “Managing Heifer MaMegan Lauber turity Pre- and Post-Breeding.”

University of Lauber is a UW-Madison Wisconsin dairy science graduate research assistant in dairy reproductive physiology under Dr. Paul Fricke.

Lauber shared information about breeding heifers by weight versus breeding by age.

“Heifer rearing is costly,” Lauber said. “To get this heifer from this non-productive, non-lactating state to grow and develop her to become a productive member of the herd, on average, is about $2,500, including the value of the calf. About 50% of the total rearing cost is feed. Raising heifers is truly an investment and a very costly one.”

To help mitigate the cost of investment, Lauber said many herds have tried to decrease the age at rst calving, which has lowered the average age at

rst calving. state, they are going to take that time to grow during “2017 survey data reported an average age of their lactation, which honestly is a very costly way 24.5 months, which may be even less now in 2022,” to grow heifers rather than growing them before Lauber said. “We are starting to see a lot of herds they calve in.” try calving at 22 months of age, but we see the greatest economic return is associated with an age at rst calving at 23 to 24 months of age.”

Lauber said data suggests the effect of weight rather than age is making a greater impact on the animal’s rst lactation.

Based on an average mature weight of 1,500 pounds, the goal is to be breeding heifers at approximately 55% of that mature weight, or at 825 pounds. Ideally, those heifers would be at 85% of that mature weight, or 1,275 pounds, after calv- MEGAN LAUBER, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINǧMADISON ing.

Lauber said data was extracted from a dairy milking nearly 6,700 Holsteins. At the dairy, the To help heifers achieve the desired weight and rst-lactation production levels maintained the same intervals based on weight rather than on age. Re- maturity benchmarks for insemination and calving, gardless of the heifers’ age (21, 22 or 23 months Lauber recommended producers choose the quality or greater), heifers that calved in heavier produced of their heifers over quantity.

“We have tools to really manage our heifer inan average of 11 to 12 pounds more milk per day than heifers that did not meet the 85% mature body ventories to keep only the heifers we nd value in,” Lauber said. “Once we determine the genetically weight benchmark.

“What was interesting with this dataset is that elite heifers we want to keep, we need to implement weight seems to be the bigger impact rather than aggressive growth programs to get them to our tarage,” Lauber said. “We can have this rst lactation get weights. We need to identify what the standard cow calve in at 21 months of age and still achieve for maturity is within our herds.”

Once a strategy for reaching the 55% magreat milk production; that it is the weight rather ture bodyweight benchmark for insemination is than the age.”

Can heifers that calve in below the 85% mature achieved, Lauber suggests implementing aggressive weight benchmark ever catch up on the milk pro- reproductive management tools to get heifers induction lost in the rst lactation? Lauber said, based seminated quickly after reaching the target weight, on the dataset she looked at, there is a substantial reducing the age at rst calving and shortening the spread in milk production per cow per day in the time heifers are non-lactating herd members.

“This all gets back to reducing the costs of the second and subsequent lactations as well.

“It seems that there really is no catch-up peri- rearing period by having more heifers inseminated od,” Lauber said. … “If these heifers are not given and reducing the days on feed,” Lauber said. the opportunity to grow during their non-lactating

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“Looking forward: Reproduction, facilities, social media”: We will discuss IVF and embryo ushing as well as what makes Bomaz Farms repro successful. We will then head to Jon-De Farm to view their new calf facilities and talk about what prompted that change.

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“Beef x Dairy: From hutch to rail”: Mark and Theresa Larson of Farmington, MN, show that simplicity should never be underrated when custom raising heifers and raising beef cross steers. Larsons raise heifers from 0-6 months for a 400-cow dairy, as well as raise all the bull calves to nish in their own operation. Following the tour of their farm, head to the University of Minnesota Meat Science Lab to discuss and see carcasses from various nished beef, beef/dairy crosses, and dairy steers.

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