Farming, Saturday, August 13 1994 H DAIRY TIF3 PR. RANDY LYLE, Fh.D. Are you raising high quality replace ment heifers? Producers should incor porate these practices and guidelines into their herd replacement programs: Force-feed high quality colostrum to calves immediately after birth. Feed no hay or forages for the first two months of life. Provide calves water, even when milk is being fed. 2. Follow a Purina heifer program that will provide growth rates of 1.8 pounds per day. Heifers will calve by 24 months of age, at 54 inch wither heights, weighing 1200 lbs AFTER calving. LEY VALLEY FEED WARRIOR S MARK FEED CENTER NORTH GLADE FEED & SUPPLY M.G. HENNINGER & SON, INC. RD2 - Box 271 A P.0.80x #l3O 12435-AWoodsboroPike Berrysburg, PA 17005 Oley, PA Warriors Mark, PA 16877 Keymar, MO 21757 717-362-3333 215-987-3568 814-632-5490 301-898-3414 Paradise, PA 17562 717-442-4183 717-768-3301 Umonville, PA 19375 215-347-2377 EDDIE MORAN R.D. #1 Box 320 Jeffersonville, N Y 12748 914-482-4199 UMBERGER’S MILL R D. #4 - Box #545 Lebanon, PA 17042 717-867-516 FRANKLIN FEED & SUPPLY 1977 Philadelphia Ave. Chambersburg, PA 717-264-6148 TRICHE LEVATOR, INC. the OXFORD GRAIN & HAY CO. uu.i£fml£®da ?707n 1212 Railroad Ave. W 71? Oxford, PA19363 717-368-3724 215-932-8521 WELLCO FEED RR 2 Rnv 1-A w,«us.»a. PA 10.53 . R D BOWMAN & SONS, INC. 717-746-3442 .301-848-3733 * Trademark of Ralston Purina Company PURINA MILLS. INC. Feeds designed with you in mind. HHHHHKHHHHKHKHKKKSKHHftKKKKMKKKMKKHKKKra-DKKKKB 3Y Purina Mills Dairy Consultant CALVES AND HEIFERS Contact your Purina representative for further evaluation of your situation. WOODSTOWN ICE & COAL CO., INC. FARM CREST FEEDS 50 East Grant Street Lititz, PA Woodstown, NJ 08098 717-626-0331 609-769-0069 800-432-3040 K & K FEED, INC. ANTHONY’S FEED MILL P.O. Box 212 Strausstown, PA 19559 215-488-6211 FARMER’S UNION CO-OP 30 East Walters Avenue Greencastle, PA 17225 717-597-3191 BEDFORD FARM BUREAU Bedford, PA 814-623-6194 Everett, PA 814-652-2313 New Enterprise, PA 814-766-3328 23 N. Park Street Richland, PA 17087 717-866-2324 Evaluate whether your first lactation heifers are “keeping up” with older cows. DHIA records are a valuable tool to allow evaluation. Peak milk production of first, second, and third + lactation ani mals is one measure to watch. Also evaluate 305-day M.E. (mature equival ent) of all age groups. Persistency of heifers should be higher than that of COWS. Heifers that calve at low body weight and small frame size will not “keep up” with old er cows. Milk production across the herd will be reduced, along with efficiency of pro duction and profitability. KREIDER’S MILL, INC. P.O. Box 146 Loysville, PA 17047 717-789-3535 l-HECK R ■DA»n 239 W. Main St. Knoxville. PA 16928 814-326-4178 HIGH BROS. MILL 441 Centerville Road Gordonville, PA 17529 717-354-0301 H.C. SUMMERS, INC. 4002 Jefferson Pike Jefferson, MD 301-473-8300 WILLIAM GOWER & SON Rt. 1, Box 50 Williamsport, MD 21795 301-^B2-2818 MARTIN’S FEED & FERTILIZER, INC. Coburn, PA 16832 814-349-8787 BROOKLANO MILLS, INC. McVeytown, PA 17051 717-899-6772 MELVIN WHEELER Moscow, PA 18444 717-842-8271 DRAFT FEED & SUPPLY Jon Almarode PO Box 621, Rt. 340 Sturarts Draft, VA 24477 703-337-0408 NISSLEY FEED CENTER Mill Rd„ Box 377 Morgantown, PA 19543 215-286-9029
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