Dairy
Autumn calving: Giving calves the best possible start
As we get closer to the start of calving for the autumn calving herds, farmers need to ensure that calves...
Colostrum
Sheep
Adopting changes to improve your lambing season
Making small changes to how you approach your lambing season on the farm could prove to make a significant impact...
Dairy Technical
Dairy advice: Collecting, storing and reheating colostrum
The collecting, storing and reheating of colostrum or beestings will take place on the majority of dairy farms during the...
Sheep
Measures farmers can take to reduce lambing mortality rates
While it is not possible to keep every lamb alive, there are measures farmers can take to reduce mortality rates...
Sheep
The importance of colostrum this lambing season
As sheep farmers are well aware, ensuring that newborn lambs receive adequate supplies of colostrum is critical during lambing. The...
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
Improving colostrum quality this calving season
Ensuring that colostrum quality is high among your cows before the start of calving should be a focus on dairy...
Dairy Technical
Dairy advice: Stomach tubing calves
Stomach tubing calves is the preferred option for many farmers when feeding calves colostrum shortly after birth. A calves first...
Dairy Technical
Colostrum and transition milk: Getting calves off to the best start
Both colostrum and transition milk have important roles to play in ensuring that young calves get the best start in...
Dairy Technical
Autumn calving: Improving colostrum quality
The autumn-calving season is underway on some farms, while for many others there are still a couple of weeks before...
Dairy Technical
Preventing cases of scour this spring
Scour is something that most dairy farmers will have to deal with at some point this spring, but there are...
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,...
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...
Sheep
Ensuring lambs receive adequate colostrum
Colostrum is the single most important feed lambs will consume in the first few hours of life. Colostrum offers a...
Dairy Technical
Improving your calves' saleability this spring
Improving your calves’ saleability should be something you consider, as the numbers of calves presenting at marts for sale has...
Sheep Technical
50% of total lamb losses occur in the first 48 hours of life
Almost 50% of total lamb losses occur in the first 48 hours of life, with a further 11% coming to...
Dairy Technical
Testing colostrum quality on farms this spring
The feeding of high-quality colostrum is important in order to give calves the best start in life and to ensure...