Abstract
Abstract This chapter describes how rearing youngstock and replacing cows can be incorporated into a herd health programme. It is aimed at providing the herd health advisor with a logical approach to managing and monitoring youngstock health and performance. Focus is given on the dynamics of the dairy herd structure (culling and replacements), mortality and disease in youngstock, culling of adult cows, financial costs associated with culling of cows, welfare considerations of youngstock rearing, monitoring youngstock health (neonatal, preweaning and postweaning periods), first calving and lactation and culling in the adult herd, targets for youngstock rearing and dairy cow culling and disease control in the rearing period.
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