Dairy
As we approach the winter housing period, farmers must make spring calving heifers a priority to achieve the correct target weights.
Spring milk volumes increased strongly in the last two weeks as rising temperatures led to a surge in grass growth, according to a new survey.
During calving, cows are under pressure going from calving down to milking and going from cubicles to paddocks, which can cause lameness.
The majority of herds will now have calves on the ground as we get further into February which means the risk of calf scour in the calf...
Retained cleanings is also known as retained fetal membrane or retained placenta and occurs when the calf's side of the placenta...
We are now only a matter of days away from the start of the calving season and any last minute tweaks that need to be made to your calf shed
Many cows have already kicked off the calving season as their are a number of calves born across the country in the last week and good...
We are nearing the end of December already and it won't be long until the calving season kicks off all over again, and farmers needs to....
Calf scour is a well known enemy in farm yards across the country with the disease holding the record for the number one cause of sickness...
As we are now into the thick of autumn calving, it's important to be constantly thinking of keeping your somatic cell count (SCC) down as...
This week's Dairy Focus takes us to a farm where Breffni Daly, a young man from west Cork, has been managing a 1,500-cow operation...
A new feasibility study published in the science journal, Nature, predicts cow calving time 40+ hours before birth using heart rate data.
There is no doubt that milk pregnancy testing is growing in popularity on dairy farms across the country in the last couple of years but...
New Zealand dairy farmer Frank Newman is enjoying the start of the calving season as 244 cows have calved from July 23 to August 1.
Dairy News
The Irish Cattle Breeders Federation (ICBF) said 448,123 calves have been genotyped to date under the National Genotyping Programme (NGP).
Sheep
Farmers Pat and Catherine Murray are experiencing late nights and early starts as they continue through the lambing and calving season
Agri-Business
XLVets Ireland said there was an 80% increase in reports of calf birth defects in the first two months of 2024 when compared with last year.
Rural Life
A Kerry dairy farmer has told how his uncle, who is a priest, has encouraged him to keep surprise triplet calves recently born on his farm.
Beef
A Teagasc vet has said that there is no guarantee that the number of cows calving at night will reduce if...
Dairy Technical
It is important that after calving cows are closely monitored to ensure that excess body condition is not being lost.
N.Ireland
New statistics from AHWNI have shown that BVDP is at its lowest since the compulsory programme started to help eradicate BVD....
The DAFM is urging the investigation of any birth deformities seen in calves or lambs on farms this spring.
Around 3,000 farmers are facing into reducing organic nitrogen stocking rates to be compliant with the changes in the maximum stocking rates
