HERD MANAGEMENT

The Palgrove female herd is managed under a strictly commercial operating system, with cows expected to calve unassisted; calve by 2 years of age and continue to produce a calf every year. The majority of yearling heifers are AI’ed or joined to yearling bulls and those requiring assistance are culled along with their progeny.

Health:

All sale bulls are inoculated twice with 7-in-1 and 3 Day Sickness and 3 germ tick blood vaccinated. Palgrove is an accredited TB and Brucellosis free herd and all of our properties are recognised as Johnes Disease Protected.

Pestivirus:

We believe we have a responsibility to ensure that clients’ herds are not exposed to the risk of exposure to Pestivirus. We've undertaken a program of testing all of our sale bulls to ensure that they are negative persistently infected (PI Negative) for Pesti before they are sold. We also have a program for vaccination of all heifers and natural exposure strategies are put in place in our mature breeding herd.