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‘Farmers need to be proactive about lameness’

June 4, 2019

Lameness is the number one welfare issue on dairy farms and a lame cow could “cost you up to €300/cow/year”. On last week’s…

May 6, 2019

Last week, at a breeding event held by MSD Animal Health in Teagasc Moorepark, Cara Sheridan – a technical adviser with MSD –…

May 3, 2019

Two new studies on the Dairymaster MooMonitor+ system – for monitoring cows behaviour – show an “extremely high accuracy of the system for…

March 30, 2019

‘Dirty cows’ or cows with metritis have become a major cause of poor reproductive performance in many dairy herds. Metritis can cause a…

February 23, 2019

Rapid body condition score (BCS) loss post-calving can cause health implications or failure to go back in-calf in the future. BCS loss is…

May 16, 2015

A Jersey X cow called Portia has been living with a window in her stomach since 2002 at Tufts University in the US. So…

March 25, 2015

Udder health is important for cow health and good milk production and the use of Somatic Cell Count (SCC) has proven to be…