Dairy Technical
Getting the management of calves right this autumn is vital for their development and to ensure that growth targets are achieved.
Enniscorthy Mart held its weekly calf sale on Wednesday (November 29), with 120 calves on offer at this weeks sale.
Managing cell counts within herds can be a challenge at time, particularly in herds that are producing milk off cubicles.
Prices reached €2,400 at Cashel Blue cheese herd dispersal sale in Mid Tipp Marts in Thurles on Friday, November 24.
Keeping on top of hygiene standards within the calf shed this autumn is vital to ensure that calf health remains high and sickness low.
Castleisland Mart held it's calf sale on Monday (November 20), with an extremely lively trade for Autumn born calves.
For herds that are calving cows in autumn some thought now needs to be placed on the breeding of cows this winter.
Monitoring of body condition score (BCS) in winter milk cows is important at this stage of lactation, to ensure excess condition is not lost.
Pneumonia can affect cattle of any age; it is a complex multi-factorial respiratory disease, caused by a range of bacteria.
Milk fever is unfortunately an issue that will likely have to be dealt with on farms calving cows this autumn.
Having good feed efficiency within winter milk systems is vital for a margin to be achieved on milk produced during the housed period.
Calving is underway on autumn-calving or winter milk herds and as a consequence, there will be issues with calf health and scour.
Managing negative energy balance (NEB) in cows is vital to ensuring that they go on to have a successful lactation.
The autumn-calving period is underway and ensuring that calves off to the best start is vital to ensure continued growth performance is achieved.
The autumn-calving season is underway on dairy farms that will be producing milk over the winter months and a focus within the calf shed is preventing scour.
The importance of young calves receiving high-quality colostrum cannot be underestimated during the calving season.
The autumn-calving season is underway on dairy farms and the management of freshly calved cows during these first few weeks of the lactation is vital.
Getting the transition cow period right on farms is vital to cows having a successful calving period and subsequent lactation.
If there was an issue with colostrum quality in the past, there are a number of measures that can improve the quality.
The autumn-calving season is underway on many farms, while for others the start of calving should be the last few days of September.
There are a number of jobs that farmers can be completing on their farms over the coming weeks before housing gets underway.
Dairy News
The Teagasc national winter-milk open day will take place in Teagasc Johnstown Castle, Co. Wexford, next Wednesday, September 6.
The autumn-calving season will be getting underway on dairy farms in the coming weeks, but should be calf them in the shed or paddock?
