Dairy Technical
Have you checked that your yearling heifers are still on target?
The focus on dairy farms is primarily on calving, but it is important not to forget about your yearling replacement...
Dairy Technical
The focus on dairy farms is primarily on calving, but it is important not to forget about your yearling replacement...
Dairy Technical
Heifer mastitis can be an issue on some farms, with heifers often calving down with cases or developing them shortly...
Dairy Technical
The autumn-calving period is underway and ensuring that calves get off to the best start in life is vital to...
Dairy Technical
As we move into autumn it is important to ensure that replacement heifers are achieving their growth targets. Grass growth...
Dairy Technical
It is important to check whether your replacement heifers are achieving their targets, because if they are not, there could...
Dairy Technical
Replacement heifer calves that were born in January and February should now all be at grass and weaned from milk....
Dairy Technical
The weather of late has been somewhat unsettled, making many farmers hesitant to let replacement heifers out to grass. On...
Dairy Technical
The autumn-calving season is well underway on farms, but as we move towards the breeding season, it is important to...
Dairy Technical
Culling cows based on performance alone is a mistake, but this is often the tendency on Irish farms, rather than...
Dairy Technical
Increased focus on improving beef traits from the dairy herd has led to a key breeding recommendation to only generate...
Dairy Technical
Teagasc recommends that replacement heifers are bred with dairy artificial insemination (AI) because they are the most fertile animals in...
Beef
The breeding season on spring-calving herds is not too far away, at this stage farmers should be considering the number...
Dairy
Achieving target weights is important for heifers; those that fail to reach target before calving will produce less milk in...
Dairy
We are coming close to the finish line on many spring-calving dairy farms, as calving season begins to wind down...
Dairy
We are coming to the end of the 2019 milking season on many spring-calving dairy farms; however, there are a...
Dairy
As the grazing season draws to a close and we begin entering a different phase of the year on farms,...
Dairy
Poor fertility in replacement heifers is often due to them being under target weight by mating start date (MSD); however,...
Dairy
Poor conception rates in replacement heifers are often due to heifers being underweight by the start of the breeding season....