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We buy dairy and beef cross calves from Buitelaar approved and monitored dairy farms on a weekly basis to both stock our own supply chain rearing units and sell externally. With four Calf Collection Centres strategically located around the UK, covering the most densely populated dairy farming areas, we are always searching for quality, healthy calves from farms aligned with our higher welfare values.
When selling calves to Buitelaar, we can arrange the collection of your calves, or you are welcome to deliver to Collection Centres yourselves and watch your calves weighed and graded impartially.
We believe in building strong relationships across our supply chain and offer on farm Tech Team visits to support our supplier farmers, inspect calves and ensure calves have the best possible start in life.
All of our Collection Centres are Farm Assured, operating the highest welfare standards. Calves are bedded on deep straw in clean, spacious pens with ventilation and access to fresh drinking water. All of our Centres run under 24-hour surveillance which offers complete transparency to industry retailers and partners.
We operate a transparent pricing structure and strive to offer dairy farmers a trusted, consistent and convenient sales channel, with the additional benefits of on farm support to continuously improve farm efficiencies and early-stage calf management.
On arrival, each calf is weighed and benchmarked against the average expected birth weights to give a weight-for-age figure. Calves are graded against the EUROP grid and see price movements from the base value that is applicable to the calf breed and sex, which are dependent on its weight and grade. We pay extra for every kilo over our minimum weight of 55Kg.
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“As a valued supplier to Buitelaar, we would like to reassure you that all calves supplied to our collection centres are treated with the utmost respect and we guarantee that no healthy calf in our care is exported, sent to slaughter or euthanised. All calves either enter our own supply chain or are placed on pre-approved family farms that we know and trust.
Calf welfare has always been at the heart of our business and we continue to be as committed as ever to our higher welfare values, offering full traceability and transparency throughout our chain.”
We are proud of the recognition we have received for our commitment to the highest possible welfare standards in our supply chain which aids our goal of delivering a top-quality finished product to our customers.
