Dairy
Dairy advice: Reducing mastitis risk during the dry period
As we are now in the month of December, many cows around the country are dried off at this point...
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Dairy advice: Managing BCS in late lactation cows
Many farmers have started to dry off their first calvers and their thin cows, and perhaps they should body condition...
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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...
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Selective dry cow therapy: Simple steps to get it right
Taking some simple steps can make selective dry cow therapy (SDCT) common practice in one’s herd, according to the Irish...
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Non-antibiotic treatments 'will revolutionise' dry cow therapy
Research carried out at the Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) has confirmed that non-antibiotic interventions can be used as an...
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Why bother with a dry period?
Attention is slowly turning to the dry period at farm level and many dairy farmers may consider milking on to...