Dairy
Dairy advice: Ensuring quality colostrum starts now
With the calving season only a matter of weeks away, the preparation for ensuring calves receive quality colostrum should start...
Colostrum Management
Dairy
Autumn calving: Storing and reheating colostrum for calves
Autumn calving is well and truly underway and it is important that farmers are making sure that their calves are...
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Transition period & early lactation: A springboard to a successful lactation
A focus on management and nutrition during the transition period makes all the difference to performance in the next lactation. ...
Dairy Technical
Calving 2024: The importance of colostrum this spring
With calving now underway on farms, it is important that you are testing and feeding colostrum to newborn calves. Calves...
Dairy Technical
Calving season: Reducing the number of late night calvings
A compact calving season has it’s benefits and suits Ireland’s grass-based production system, but it does mean that the workload...
Dairy Technical
Dairy advice: Areas to improve calf health on your farm
Getting calf health right on farm is a key pillar to having a successful calving season, with it having a...
Dairy Technical
Autumn calving: Don't forget the importance of colostrum
The importance of young calves receiving high-quality colostrum cannot be underestimated during the calving season. The autumn-calving season is underway...
Dairy Technical
Management of colostrum around calving
The 2023 calving season is underway on the majority of dairy farms across the country and the importance of colostrum...
Dairy Technical
Feeding colostrum to calves: Teat or tube?
Farmers are well aware of the importance of feeding calves high-quality colostrum within the first few hours of life. However,...
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Events to showcase options for life beyond the farm
Two events are set to take place in the north-west to showcase the positives of the Irish dairy sector and...
Dairy Technical
Autumn calving: Improving colostrum quality
Feeding calves high-quality colostrum is important to ensure they get maximum benefit from the antibodies present. Calves are born with...
Dairy Technical
Ensuring calves get adequate colostrum
Colostrum is a source of maternal antibodies, which aid the calf when fighting off disease or sickness in early life....
Dairy Technical
Colostrum management on dairy farms for spring 2022
During the recent CalfCare webinar event run by Animal Health Ireland (AHI) in conjunction with Teagasc and Volac, colostrum management...