Dairy
Calving has arrived or only around the corner for a lot of autumn herds and the final few preparations need to be made to ensure calf health..
After second-cut silage and after the breeding season, it is often a popular time for farmers to start digging, laying concrete and erecting..
Teagasc is currently inviting tenders from suppliers for modular calf housing units at its Moorepark facility.
Agri-Business
An Bord Pleanála has rejected an appeal made against a plan to extend a calf house on a farm in Co. Tipperary.
Beef
Calf-rearing is a seasonal job on most farms in Ireland and with the peak spring-calving season fast approaching...
Making small adjustments to calf housing can help streamline the feeding and herding processes and improving ventilation in calf housing...
Northern Ireland's farmers are set to benefit from a 3D app developed to help reduce disease and improve growth in dairy calves through improvements to calf housing.
Dairy Technical
Pneumonia can affect cattle of any age; it is a complex multi-factorial respiratory disease, caused by a range of bacteria.
N.Ireland
DAERA has highlighted the "crucial role in rearing" that calf housing maintains, with CAFRE offering advice to farmers.
The start of the 2023 spring-calving season is just over six-weeks away on dairy farms across the country and thus the arrival of calves.
Ahead of the spring-calving season, dairy farmers should assess their calf housing facilities to determine if they are adequate.
Improving your calves' saleability should be something you consider, as the numbers of calves presenting at marts for sale has increased.
Buildings
A window of opportunity could present itself over the next while to tackle the calf shed and get it organised for this coming spring.
Calf housing facilities are an important part of any dairy farm, with below par facilities leading to increased sickness within calves.
March and into early April is commonly the time when any calf health issues occur on farms as housing facilities come under pressure.
In the first programme of 'The Calf Show' series, hosted by AgriLand, our panellists discussed the subject of calf housing this spring.
AgriLand decided to look back to when a Meath-based farmer decided to convert his idle silage slab at the time into extra calf housing space.
It was impressive to see the simple techniques Patrick Marnell has installed into his calf shed to prevent draughts coming in.
The last thing you want is to be cleaning out a calf shed a few days before calving. Get ahead of yourself and put it on your to-do list now.
As we begin entering a different phase of the year on farms, there are a number of jobs dairy farmers should get ticked off their to-do list.
Farming in Co. Meath, Mark Cassidy runs a 370 spring-calving dairy herd, which has grown in considerable size over the last few years.
With the lambing and calving season underway, it is important farmers keep in mind the importance of good ventilation.
With not long left until the spring-calving season is in full swing, it is paramount that your calf housing facilities are up to the task.
