
Beef
Water and concentrate feeding is key to calf rumen development
With autumn calving is well and truly underway, focusing on the rumen development of young calves is a crucial aspect...
Beef
With autumn calving is well and truly underway, focusing on the rumen development of young calves is a crucial aspect...
Dairy
The first step to a successful winter milk herd is ensuring that mineral and feed are at optimum levels to...
Dairy
With the evenings closing in, and autumn calving ready to start, farmers should be asking themselves: how much light should...
Dairy
Cows are beginning to calve on autumn calving farms and colostrum is going to be crucial for the calves’ start...
N.Ireland
The next couple of weeks are crucial in getting prepared for the arrival of calves for autumn calving herds, for...
Dairy
Milk fever (hypocalcemia) is a metabolic disorder where the cow’s blood calcium levels drop, typically within 24 hours after calving....
Beef
Autumn calving may already have kicked off on some farms, but preparation will now be well underway for herds calving...
Dairy
With drying off for autumn calving herds set to take place in the next couple of weeks, the body condition...
Dairy
We are now into the middle of November, which means that the start of the breeding season for the autumn...
Dairy
As we are now into the thick of autumn calving, it’s important to be considerate of keeping your somatic cell...
Dairy
Autumn calving is well and truly underway and it is important that farmers are making sure that their calves are...
Dairy
Autumn calving is well underway for many autumn calving herds. Not only should you ensure that calves get the best...
N.Ireland
As we get closer to the start of calving for the autumn calving herds, farmers need to ensure that calves...
N.Ireland
Securing optimal levels of winter milk performance in autumn calving cows requires a number of key management priorities to be...
Dairy
Monitoring of body condition score (BCS) in winter milk cows is important at this stage of lactation, to ensure excess...
N.Ireland
Milk fever is unfortunately an issue that will likely have to be dealt with on farms calving cows this autumn....
Dairy
Having good feed efficiency within winter milk systems is vital for a margin to be achieved on milk produced during...
Dairy
Calving is underway on autumn-calving or winter milk herds and as a consequence, there will be issues with calf health...