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Dairy Advice: Dealing with 'retained cleanings' this spring
Retained cleanings is also known as retained fetal membrane or retained placenta and occurs when the calf’s side of the...
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Dairy advice: Reducing the risk of metabolic issues
The calving season is only a matter of weeks away and the risk of milk fever (hypocalcemia) and other metabolic...
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Getting your mineral supplementation right for dry cows
Mineral supplementation is a crucial aspect of the dry cow period to help with body condition score (BCS), calving down...
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Feeding the dairy cow as the dry period approaches
The very mild weather into November has meant that most cows around the country are still out at grass, and...
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Preventing milk fever in your autumn calving herd
As we progress further into the calving season for the autumn calving herds, the risk of milk fever (hypocalcemia) and...
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Autumn calving: Assessing BCS and selecting for SDCT
Although the autumn calving season is still a number of months away, assessing body condition score (BCS) and identifying which...
Dairy Technical
Keeping milk fever at bay in later calving cows
As we progress further into March, the calving season continues, with the risk of milk fever within cows likely to...
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....
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Monitoring cows for milk fever ahead of calving
Milk fever is an issue that is commonly seen on dairy farms during the calving period and this can often...
Dairy Technical
Have you assessed your spring-calving cows' BCS?
The drying-off of cows is approaching on spring-calving herds and if you haven’t already done so, it is time to...
Dairy Technical
Dealing with milk fever in autumn-calving cows
A case of milk fever can have a detrimental effect on a cow and her production during the subsequent lactation....
Dairy Technical
Preventing milk fever in autumn-calving cows
A case of milk fever can have a detrimental effect on a cow, and her production during the subsequent lactation....
Dairy Technical
Monitoring cows for milk fever
The spring-calving season is underway on many farms, and a common issue seen around this time, is milk fever.. Milk...
Dairy Technical
Transition cow management key to successful calving season
The calving of autumn-calving cows will soon be starting on farms that are producing winter milk, which means cows are...
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Preventing milk fever in autumn-calving cows
Autumn-calving is fast approaching on farms and autumn-calving cows, are more susceptible to milk fever than their spring-calving counter parts....
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Grass paddocks have wintered well on most dairy farms
Teagasc nutritionist Joe Patton has confirmed that grass availability is more than plentiful on most dairy farms at the present...
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Milk fever: Disease associated with calving that farmers will be trying to avoid
With calving having already started on some farms and it being just around the corner on many other dairy farms,...
Dairy
What can I do to prevent milk fever on my dairy farm this year?
Dairy farmers are being reminded of the important role of dry cow management, in particular nutrition and mineral supplementation, when...