Dairy News
Milk replacer: How much can you expect to pay this spring?
While most people are enjoying the festive period, many farmers are planning for the arrival of calves this spring, and...
Dairy News
While most people are enjoying the festive period, many farmers are planning for the arrival of calves this spring, and...
Dairy News
A series of 18 on-farm CalfCare events for farmers will take place nationwide throughout the month of January. The CalfCare...
Dairy Technical
Getting the management of calves right this autumn is vital for their development and to ensure that growth targets are...
Dairy Technical
Most autumn-calving or winter milk herds now have the majority of cows calved, therefore there a large number of calves...
Dairy Technical
Continued monitoring of your heifer calves is vital to ensure that growth targets are achieved ahead of breeding next year....
N.Ireland
AgriSearch and the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) have published a new calf housing design guide. This is an outcome...
Dairy Technical
The autumn-calving period is underway and ensuring that calves get off to the best start in life is vital to...
Dairy Technical
The challenging weather this year means there is likely a high level of parasites present in calves, and dosing may...
Dairy Technical
Keeping parasites under control in calves is important to ensure that calves continue to reach their growth targets. Although calves...
Dairy Technical
A stand at the Teagasc Moorepark Open Day outlined some results from trials investigating the impact of two different cow-calf...
Dairy Technical
Summer scour is something that many farmers have seen in their calves in recent years, with its exact cause still...
Dairy Technical
Although most farms are past the peak of the calving season, calves are still be born and for some, scour...
Dairy Technical
Avoiding stress is key to a successful weaning process and ensuring that calves continue to achieve growth targets into the...
Dairy Technical
For farms that start calving in mid-January it may now be time to start looking at potentially weaning some of...
Dairy Technical
Maintaining a high level of hygiene in calf sheds is important in order to keep calves healthy and reduce the...
Dairy Technical
Farms that began calving cows in mid- to late-January may now need to start disbudding some of the older calves...
Dairy Technical
Calves have arrived on the majority of Irish dairy farms, with the spring-calving season well underway. The early part of...
Dairy Technical
Calf ration plays a vital role in the development of a young calf, particularly for the development of their rumen....