F Van Der Merwe

If you can buy animals close where you farm, you can buy heifers, but your farm will take much longer to start producing. We have found that buying non-pregnant animals from far away is a bad idea, because they take sometimes more than a year to feel at home, and only then will they become pregnant. So it can take up to 2 years or longer before your animals will calve. Calves born on your farm wil ...