
Dairy Technical
Impact of a retained placenta in dairy cows
A retained placenta is when a cow or heifer fails to expel their afterbirth within 24 hours post-parturition. In some...
Dairy Technical
A retained placenta is when a cow or heifer fails to expel their afterbirth within 24 hours post-parturition. In some...
Dairy Technical
Mineral supplementation for cows is important to ensure they remain healthy during their lactation and are able to achieve maximum...
Dairy Technical
Phosphorus (P) deficiency can be exacerbate by a dry/cold spell in April according to Dr. Joe Patton a dairy specialist...
Dairy
‘Dirty cows’ or cows with metritis have become a major cause of poor reproductive performance in many dairy herds. Metritis...
Dairy
Rapid body condition score (BCS) loss post-calving can cause health implications or failure to go back in-calf in the future....
Dairy
With calving having already started on some farms and it being just around the corner on many other dairy farms,...
Dairy
Johne’s disease is a bacterial disease of cattle, which can have a negative economic impact on farms. With calving gathering...
Dairy
Mastitis is the most economically challenging disease on a dairy farm, with freshly-calved cows and heifers the most susceptible to...
Dairy
Mastitis is the most economically challenging disease on a dairy farm, it causes the swelling of the cow’s udder tissue...
Dairy
Johne’s disease is a bacterial disease of cattle and other ruminants for which there is currently no cure. Johne’s is...
Dairy
Lameness is the number one welfare issue on dairy farms and a lame cow could “cost you up to €300/cow/year”....
Dairy
Last week, at a breeding event held by MSD Animal Health in Teagasc Moorepark, Cara Sheridan – a technical adviser...
Dairy
Two new studies on the Dairymaster MooMonitor+ system – for monitoring cows behaviour – show an “extremely high accuracy of...
Dairy
‘Dirty cows’ or cows with metritis have become a major cause of poor reproductive performance in many dairy herds. Metritis...
Dairy
Rapid body condition score (BCS) loss post-calving can cause health implications or failure to go back in-calf in the future....
Dairy
A Jersey X cow called Portia has been living with a window in her stomach since 2002 at Tufts University in...
Dairy
Udder health is important for cow health and good milk production and the use of Somatic Cell Count (SCC) has...