Dairy
The third season of 'The Dairy Trail' limited podcast series is set to return, focusing on late lactation and drying-off the herd.
We are a the stage now where the first of the autumn calving cows will be dried off in the coming days and that dry cow management and...
As we are now into the start of December, many cows in the country are dried off at this point and mastitis risk needs to be kept at bay...
Many farmers have started to dry off their first calvers and their thin cows and maybe farmers should body condition score (BCS) the rest...
Taking some simple steps can make selective dry cow therapy (SDCT) common practice in one's herd, according to the ICBF.
Research carried out at WIT has confirmed that non-antibiotic interventions can be used as an effective blanket treatment to ‘dry-off’ cows.
Attention is slowly turning to the dry period at farm level and many farmers may be considering milking on to recoup some of the additional costs.
