A retained placenta is when a cow or heifer fails to expel their afterbirth within 24 hours post-parturition. In some...
March 20, 2022
Mineral supplementation for cows is important to ensure they remain healthy during their lactation and are able to achieve maximum...
August 21, 2021
Phosphorus (P) deficiency can be exacerbate by a dry/cold spell in April according to Dr. Joe Patton a dairy specialist...
April 29, 2021
‘Dirty cows’ or cows with metritis have become a major cause of poor reproductive performance in many dairy herds. Metritis...
March 29, 2021
Rapid body condition score (BCS) loss post-calving can cause health implications or failure to go back in-calf in the future....
February 27, 2021
With calving having already started on some farms and it being just around the corner on many other dairy farms,...
January 22, 2021
Johne’s disease is a bacterial disease of cattle, which can have a negative economic impact on farms. With calving gathering...
January 17, 2021
Mastitis is the most economically challenging disease on a dairy farm, with freshly-calved cows and heifers the most susceptible to...
January 9, 2021
Mastitis is the most economically challenging disease on a dairy farm, it causes the swelling of the cow’s udder tissue...
December 19, 2020
Johne’s disease is a bacterial disease of cattle and other ruminants for which there is currently no cure. Johne’s is...
December 18, 2020
Lameness is the number one welfare issue on dairy farms and a lame cow could “cost you up to €300/cow/year”....
June 4, 2019
Last week, at a breeding event held by MSD Animal Health in Teagasc Moorepark, Cara Sheridan – a technical adviser...
May 6, 2019
Two new studies on the Dairymaster MooMonitor+ system – for monitoring cows behaviour – show an “extremely high accuracy of...
May 3, 2019
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February 23, 2019
A Jersey X cow called Portia has been living with a window in her stomach since 2002 at Tufts University in...
May 16, 2015
Udder health is important for cow health and good milk production and the use of Somatic Cell Count (SCC) has...
March 25, 2015
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