Beef
As the autumn calving is well and truly underway rumen, a focus on the rumen development of young calves is a crucial aspect to...
There has been no increase in the number of farmers rearing calves this year - or the number of calves being reared by each farmer.
The UCD calf-research facility located at Lyons Farm, Co. Kildare has the capacity to rear 180 dairy calves from birth to five months of age.
The cost of rearing 100 calves to 12 weeks of age is close to €60,000, according to Teagasc DairyBeef 500 programme advisor Gordon Peppard.
Investing in nutrition at the calf stage will offer farmers the highest returns in relation to Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR).
Dairy
In the first episode of the Farming for the Future series, 'The Spring Surge', Eoin Corrigan described his calf management routine.
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.
A new €1 million state-of-the-art dairy calf rearing centre will have its official opening at 11a.m today at UCD Lyons Farm.
The €20/calf payment for farmers rearing calves from the dairy herd for beef production is expected to return this year.
At this time of the year, farmers often move from feeding whole milk to milk replacer in order to start filling the bulk tank.
The next few articles of this ABP series will focus on the key elements involved in order to rear a calf successfully and what calves beef...
The 2025 grazing season is fast approaching (or hopefully at least) and buyers of store cattle for grass generally commence...
Suckler cow numbers and the number of farmers involved in calf rearing in New Zealand (NZ) are both...
Many farmers will now ask themselves whether or not it is worth investing in labour reducing calf facilities as a result of a tough spring...
Supplying high quality calf nutrition is an essential part of the ‘optimal environment’ required to maximise performance levels for calves...
The last of the 2024-born dairy-beef calves were turned out to grass on the ABP Demo Farm in Co. Carlow on Wednesday, July 3.
At the Irish pure friesian open day last week, we learned how Pat and Claire Cleary run their farm business effectively through simple cow...
The upcoming feed for growth webinar will give great insights and will provide an informative discussion on the latest calf milk replacer...
In a recent study carried out by Teagasc saw two different cow-calf contact (CCC) systems compared to the more conventional calf rearing...
Dairy Technical
Calf sheds are on many farms now full and the bacterial load on them in now quite high, which means that scour is now becoming an issue.
As calf sheds begin to fill on farms this spring pneumonia can begin to become an issues on many dairy farms.
Calves on many farms are now old enough to transition to once-a-day (OAD) feeding, which can reduce the workload considerably on farms.
During the calving rearing period there is an increased risk of disease or sickness, with scour being the biggest risk to young calves.
