Calves For Herd Replacements
The productive ability of a dairy herd’s replacements sets the production'level of the future herd, so the Department of Agriculture advocates the use of a merit bull out of a Lifetime Merit Register cow as the herd sire and the saving of the daughters of such a sire out of the top half of the herd. Providing they are sturdy, the calves of old cows with good lifetime performances should be kept, and there is no reason why calves of well-bred heifers should not be reared. Twin heifers are seldom worth keeping, and the twin sister of a bull calf should never be kept.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 76, 31 July 1950, Page 4
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