Dykstra Calf & Heifer Ranch

Facility Name:  Dykstra Calf & Heifer Ranch 
Owners: Dykstra Family 
Location: Remsen, IA 
Installation Date: December 2010
Number of Animals: 3,000 Calves & Heifers (Holsteins) 
Calf Feeding Equipment:  Fourteen J-V640 DairyFeed Automated Calf Feeders, which are all networked through Gateways to one central PC.  All fourteen machines also have powder supplement dosers installed.
GEA Farm Technologies/WestfaliaSurge Dealer:  Sioux Dairy Equipment, Inc., Rock Valley, IA

Notes:  The two, 260-ft calf barns have the Norbco High Plains curtains with the Slider System, six, roof exhaust fans, and four, tube ventilation fans per barn.  They have the standard High Plains curtain system on the four, 1,100-ft. open front heifer barns.  This facility also has two, Houle stem pumps for pumping liquid additives into their mixer wagon for heifer feed.

The Dykstra Calf & Heifer Ranch was built so that the Dykstra Family could raise all of their own replacements for their existing dairy (Dykstra Dairy has approximately 3,100 milking cows).

For more information about the products installed on this operation, see the "other pages" section (on the right) and select the link(s).

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