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January 14, 2021 12:00 pm High genetic merit heifers on 800g of a skim-based calf milk per day. Image source: Bonanza Calf Nutrition Heifer replacements at a Co. Offaly farm are meeting rumen transition and development targets with a 63-day feed plan. Joe Bergin, of Conroy Agri, and Joe Murphy, of Bonanza Calf Nutrition, worked with the Cashen family to get the best calf performance from feeding milk replacer from a computer feeder. John and Eamon Cashen and their wives, Sinead and Nuala, milk 134 cows at Carrig, near Birr. They have scaled up since 2014 when they were milking 27 cows. In 2019 the herd yielded an annual average of 520kg milk solids per cow from 1.2t of concentrates.