Dairy
Pneumonia in calves: What to look for
Pneumonia in calves causes inflammation and damage to the lung tissue and airways, which ultimately compromises lung function. Pneumonia and...
Calf Health
Dairy Technical
Dairy advice: Calf shed cleaning
The regular cleaning of your calf shed is important in order to keep your calves healthy and to obtain maximum...
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Transition period & early lactation: A springboard to a successful lactation
A focus on management and nutrition during the transition period makes all the difference to performance in the next lactation. ...
Dairy Technical
Dairy advice: Treating a calf with scour
Treating calves with scour is unfortunately part and parcel of rearing calves. It is unlikely you will make it through...
Dairy Technical
Lessons from the pandemic that apply to calf rearing
The Covid-19 pandemic has been ongoing for almost two years and many of the lessons learned from it can be...
Dairy Technical
CalfCare webinar: Preventing bloat in young calves
Bloat in young calves was one of the topics discussed at this week’s online CalfCare event run by Animal Health...
Dairy Technical
Is your calf housing up to par?
Calf housing facilities are an important part of any dairy farm, with below-par facilities leading to increased sickness among calves....
Dairy Technical
Scour: Keeping autumn-born calves healthy
Scour is the biggest killer of calves on farms under one month of age and with calves arriving thick and...
Dairy Technical
Autumn-calving: Clinical signs of pneumonia in calves
Pneumonia and scour are the main illnesses that are experienced by young calves, with pneumonia being the most common cause...
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Aurivo ‘Your Farm, Your Future’ events to showcase dairy careers
Two events are set to take place in the north-west to showcase the positives of the Irish dairy sector and...
Dairy Technical
Summer scour: A 'product of our success'
During the recent XLVets webinar ‘Getting the Most out of the Second Half of the Breeding Season’ Kevin O’Sullivan, a...
Dairy Technical
Protecting young calves from Johne's disease
Protecting calves against exposure to Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) – the bacteria that cause Johne’s disease – is the...
Dairy Technical
Are you having issues with calf scour?
Rotavirus is the most common cause of calf scour, which usually affects calves when they are between five and 14...
Dairy Technical
Avoiding stress on replacement heifers at weaning
Poor conception rates in replacement heifers are often due to heifers being underweight by the start of the breeding season....
Beef Technical
Beware the threat of pneumonia following a change in weather
It is hard to know what season it is currently, if we were to go by the change in weather...
Dairy
Disbudding calves as registrations pass one million mark
By definition, disbudding is the removal of an area of skin, including the horn bud, in a young calf prior...
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Transform your calf rearing with a JFC automatic feeder
We recently caught up with Richard Lowe who is a dairy farmer from Adare, Co. Limerick, who shares how the...
Dairy
How to prevent coccidiosis in calves
Coccidiosis occurs in calves from the approximate age of three weeks onwards. It arises in young calves who have an...
Green Acres
Reducing antibiotic usage on a calf-to-beef farm in Co. Kilkenny
By Teagasc Green Acres Calf to Beef Programme advisor Seán Cummins With the development of antimicrobial resistance, there’s an increased...
Dairy
Don't take your eyes of the ball when it comes to calf health
March and into early April is commonly the time when any calf health issues occur on farms. This is usually...
Dairy
How to ensure you are giving replacement heifers the best start
This year’s calves will be your future milk producers of your herd; so it is paramount that heifers get the...