Young Stock Signals until the cattle themselves calve for the first time’ Jan Hulsen grew up on a farm with dairy cattle and pigs. He studied veterinary medicine, switching to agricultural education for a short period. ‘After three years working as a farm vet, with great pleasure, I started to focus on knowledge communication and consultancy’. To that end, he became involved in journalism, marketing and business administration.
The aim of young stock rearing is to produce dairy cows that are fully ready for a healthy, long and productive life. Young stock are the future of every dairy farm. Yet many dairy farms have still not yet managed to get their heifers calving the age of 23 to 24 months without problems. Scours and respiratory problems are big troublemakers, as are nutritional deficiencies. And there are more factors that stop a heifer growing up to be a strong and productive milking cow.
With his company Vetvice, Jan developed the CowSignals® concept, and wrote the successful CowSignals series of books. Vetvice is active in more than 30 countries, with lectures and training in the fields of cow signals, hoofs, udder health, fertility, young stock, dry period and transition, robotic milking, barn construction and feeding.
Young Stock Signals illustrates the procedures and concepts for actually achieving that. A guide full of practical solutions that cost little time and give a lot of job satisfaction.
From left to right: Rear row: Dr. Nico Vreeburg, Dr. Bertjan Westerlaan, Dr. Marcel Drint, Dr. Bert van Niejenhuis Front row: Dr. Jan Hulsen, Dr. Joep Driessen, ir. Wiebe Veenstra
Young Stock Signals is a practical guide, where everyone who wants to rear young stock will find valuable information. The clear text, schedules and images make the information practical and directly applicable.
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Young Stock Signals is an edition in the Cow Signals series®. CowSignals® presents practical knowledge about animal-oriented dairy cattle keeping, in an accessible way.
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A practical guide to the healthy rearing of dairy cows
The basic requirements of a cow can be condensed into seven keywords that form the points on the Cow Signal Diamond. These seven basic needs are, feed and water, light and air, rest and space, and health. As a dairy farmer, you need to satisfy these needs in order to achieve the cow’s well-being and optimum production. And, naturally, the same applies for young stock.
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The best young stock rearers have clear goals, and they keep their finger constantly on the pulse. They make efficient use of labour, housing and nutrition, and carry out daily checks to ensure each calf is in optimum health. This book describes their working method.
Jan Hulsen
Vetvice focuses on dairy farm management. A combination of care for both animals and humans and for productivity are central themes. Vetvice advises and trains livestock farmers in the fields of housing construction, organization of labour and animal disease preventive management.
Successful young stock rearing is decided mainly during the calf’s first 100 days. To that end, Young Stock Signals provides numerous examples of good housing, proper feeding and better feed regimes, complete with efficient dayly, weekly and monthly schedules. Did you know that providing sufficient nutrition ensures that calves have fewer problems with diarrhoea caused by cryptosporidiosis? And did you know that a fixed weekly calf-moving day leads to better results?
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