Dairy
Dry cow management: Ensuring cows calve down at correct BCS
As the Christmas period continues on, it is important to be critiquing your dry cow management and ensuring cows are...
Dry Cow Management
Dairy
Calf health: Does inadequate pre-calving feeding have an impact?
Inadequate pre-calving feeding during the dry off period can have a drastic impact on calf health and poor colostrum formation,...
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Watch: How Cavan farm partnership combats scour
Scour occurs when the gut becomes compromised and calves lose proper functioning of the intestine, resulting in diarrhoea and loss...
Dairy
Autumn calving: The importance of good dry cow management
The focus turns to dry cow management at this time of year, as the majority of autumn calving cows are...
Dairy Technical
Dairy advice: Selecting dry cow minerals
Depending on the planned start of calving or due dates of cows, dry cow minerals may already need to be...
Dairy Technical
Autumn-calving: Dealing with milk fever cases
Milk fever is unfortunately an issue that will likely have to be dealt with on farms calving cows this autumn....
Dairy Technical
Autumn calving: Dry cow management is key
Getting the dry cow period and transition period right is key to autumn-calving cows having a successful lactation. Autumn-calving cows...
Dairy Technical
Getting dry cow management right for a successful calving
Getting dry cow management right is a key component to having a successful calving season. Cows that calve down in...
Dairy Technical
What to look out for in dry cow minerals
On the majority of spring-calving farms the cows are now dry, and it is time to start looking at dry...
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Watch: Offaly farmer makes big savings by 'going solar'
Imagine standing on your farm, knowing you have taken steps to secure its future. The sun is shining, not just...
Dairy Technical
Dry cow management in autumn-calving herds
The transition period on autumn-calving farms has now begun, during which proper dry cow management is very important. The management...