Dairy beef Tips & Tools
Rearing dairy beef calves (PDF, 207KB)
Understand the key targets that must be achieved by each calf for successful early weaning. Contain rearing costs by dairy beef calves to allow early weaning at four to six weeks. Ensure healthy growth and rumen development with the right selection of milk replacers and calf starter feeds.
Growing out dairy beef (PDF, 665KB)
Successfully grow out dairy beef bulls on pasture, with supplementation as needed to fill nutritional gaps. Determine target growth rates based on target market specifications, feed costs and expected return on investment. Ensure that growth targets will be achieved by monitoring both cattle and pasture.
Tips & Tools: Dairy beef what makes a good one? (PDF, 146KB)
Minimise operating costs and maximise productivity by establishing a reliable soucre of dairy beef calves. Meet specifications of your target market by choosing the right calves. Avoid potential problems and disease risks for your calf rearing facility by knowing which calves to reject.
Tips & Tools: starting a dairy beef business (PDF, 200KB)
Be able to determine whether a dairy beef enterprise is an option for your overall farm business. Understand the different market opportunities for rearing or growing out dairy beef calves and the key factors you should consider in the development of a business plan for entry to this industry.
Tips & Tools: Producing healthy dairy calves (PDF, 607KB)
Minimise operating costs and maximise productivity by establishing a reliable source of dairy beef calves. Meet the specifications of your target market by choosing the right calves. Avoid potential problems and disease risks for your calf rearing facility by knowing which calves to reject.
Animal production Tips & Tools
45 x 7 – Joining ewe lambs for more profit (PDF, 516KB) This Tip & Tool shows how to select rams as maternal sires more effectively using LAMBPLAN® Australian Sheep Breeding Values (ASBVs). Improve the productivity and profitability of your enterprise by joining crossbred ewe lambs at 7–9 months of age. Optimise ewe lamb joining success through good nutritional management and animal husbandry.
Winning against seeds (PDF,178KB)
This factsheet provides information on how to become familiar with the seeds affecting your sheep enterprise and how to establish a production system that manages seeds while maximising profitability.
Managing glyogen to improve meat quality in lamb and sheepmeat (PDF, 111KB)
Explains why high pH in meat is a problem and how producers can mange glycogen in stock to avoid high pH, and maximise eating quality.
The effect of finishing on goatmeat eating quality (PDF, 318 KB) This fact sheet highlights the importance of good nutrition and finishing being critical in defining goatmeat eating quality in the period leading up to slaughter.
The effect of PH on goatmeat eating quality (PDF, 153 KB) This fact sheet looks at the levels of PH on goatmeat eating quality.
Requirements for handling goats to maximise eating quality (PDF, 118 KB) This fact sheet looks at elements of management of goats on-farm prior to slaughter that contribute to predictable eating quality.