Agri Politics
Udderly amazing! Cow gives birth to quadruplet calves
A cow has given birth to four healthy quadruplet calves in Dekalb, Texas. The cow, called Number Fifteen, delivered the...
Agri Politics
A cow has given birth to four healthy quadruplet calves in Dekalb, Texas. The cow, called Number Fifteen, delivered the...
Beef
The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) is on the lookout for tailless calves. Recently, the ICBF said it was looking...
Beef
Cryptosporidium parvum, a small single-celled parasite, is a leading cause of scour in in young calves between one and four weeks...
Beef
Vets in the west have confirmed a significant increase in the number of caesarean sections they are carrying out on...
Dairy
Latest figures from the ICBF database shows that dairy calf births are up over 19% on the same time last...
Beef
Animal Health Ireland’s (AHI) latest bulletin is focused on the management of scour in young calves. AHI says that scour...
Beef
There will not be excessive numbers of black and white bull calves coming on to the Irish market this spring,...
Beef
Farmers thinking of keeping dairy bull calves should talk to their beef processors now to gauge what sort of commercial...
Beef
February brings daffodils and crocuses, plus the start of calving and the arrival of lambs on Irish farms. Grassland: Early...
Beef
The outlook for Irish dairy calf exports to Spain in 2015 is positive, according to Cecilia Ruiz, Madrid Office Manager...
Dairy
If one of your cows or heifers has an abnormal-looking calf, the ICBF wants you to fill out the online...
Dairy
More and more farmers are vaccinating cows pre-calving against scour in calves according to Cork veterinary practitioner Pat Noonan. However,...
Beef
A team from The University of Nottingham and Queen Mary University of London, spent 10 months studying to the ways...
Dairy
Increasing numbers of dairy farmers are getting their young stock reared by another farmer under contract rearing arrangements. In some...
N.Ireland
Beef-sired sired calf registrations in Northern Ireland were up 11% for October, while dairy-sired calf registrations are also up. In...
Beef
Applicants for the Beef Genomics Scheme and those looking for BVD compensation have until tomorrow to remove PI calves from there...
Beef
By the end of June over 1.6m of the estimated 2.1m calves to be born in 2014 were registered on...
Beef
The ICBF database shows that 82% of the 14,000 PI calves born in 2013 and 55% of the 7,000 born...