Beef management: replacement heifer targets

Beef editor Adam Woods takes a look at listeria infections, housing space for young bulls and replacement heifer targets in this week's beef management notes.

18 October 2017

\ Philip Doyle

John Heslin outlined targets for replacement heifers in a spring-calving grass-based system at the Teagasc beef conference on Tuesday.

The winter period weight gain is important if heifers are to hit target weight gains for breeding next May.

He assumes that with a 135-day winter, heifers will be turned out six weeks pre-breeding and that breeding will start on 1 May.

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