Dairy Beef: Finishing young Holstein Friesian bulls

It is critical that young Holstein bulls don’t commence finishing until they have been grown correctly.

Apart from specialist finishers, there are plenty of young black and white bulls born in the spring of 2022 on farm at present for various health, monetary and logistic reasons. As we head into late spring, many of these bulls are now going on heavy finishing diets with the aim of slaughter under 16 months. 

There are a lot of opinions out there about the right way to finish these bulls. You need these bulls to finish at target weight, target age and target grade to optimise returns and for this to be achieved, then they must gain substantial weight every day of their lives.