Dairy
As the 2025 season comes to an end, it's worth considering developing a herd health plan for 2026 to see where things can be improved.
A nutritional company attracted 350 farmers, researchers, vets, and feed advisors to its calf rearing roadshow.
There is plenty of calves on the ground as autumn calving just about wraps up, but with pens filling the threat of calf scour grows.
A series of on-farm events focused on the connection between producing healthy calves and farm profitability is set to take place.
With the vast majority of the calves already on the ground, farmers need to ensure November calves are still getting the care needed.
With the autumn calving season well underway, farmers must keep a keen eye out for early signs of calf pneumonia
Cows are calving away in autumn calving herds health issues such as abomasal bloat, can increasingly become a problem...
There are plenty of calves on the ground for the herds that are milking cows over the winter months, and calf scour can pose a serious...
After second-cut silage and after the breeding season, it is often a popular time for farmers to start digging, laying concrete and erecting..
Beef
A series of on-farm calf rearing events focused on offering farmers practical management advice and tips is set to take place next week.
OAD feeding can significantly help this process of weaning and it can also help considerably with the workload at this time of the year.
Eoin Corrigan has 275 cows to calve down this spring and uses a nursery shed to get calves sucking, trained and in good health in seven days.
Agri-Business
Teagasc and Animal Health Ireland (AHI) have announced an updated schedule for CalfCare on farm events this month.
Teagasc has confirmed that due to ongoing cold snap across the country more CalfCare 2025 events have now been rescheduled.
Several on-farm events planned for Co. Cork this week as part of CalfCare 2025 have been postponed due to the ongoing wintry weather.
The upcoming feed for growth webinar will give great insights and will provide an informative discussion on the latest calf milk replacer...
Dairy Technical
Cryptosporidiosis (crypto) and coccidiosis, along with other infectious scours can be an issue on many dairy farms during the calving season.
Dairy News
A series of 18 on-farm CalfCare events for farmers will take place nationwide throughout the month of January.
Calf stress is not something that many farmers would consider or be aware of when rearing calves -...
Bloat in young calves was one of the topic discussed at the recent online CalfCare event run by Animal Health Ireland.
AHI has said that its CalfCare events that were supposed to take place this month have been cancelled, in light of increasing Covid-19 cases.
When cleaning out calf sheds, many farmers are tempted to wash the floor with a high volume hose, before applying lime.
The calving season has started on some farms, while many other farms will be starting in the coming days and weeks.
