Dairy Technical
Winter preparation of animals' housing is not a job most farmers enjoy completing, mainly because it means that animals will be housed soon.
Sheep
Some farms will be in the thick of the lambing while many others will be hitting the ground running over the coming weeks.
Dairy
Mastitis is the most economically challenging disease on a dairy farm, it causes the swelling of the cow’s udder tissue and mammary glands.
With cows fully housed around the country and the majority of those dried off, one of the main focuses over the dry period will be ensuring good hygiene.
Good hygiene over the housing period is of the utmost importance to reduce the risk of cows contracting mastitis infections.
At this time of the year, farmers up and down the country will either be in the middle or coming to the end of the lambing season.
A pre-lambing workshop was held on Monday, February 3, on the farm of Aidan and Peter Kehoe, in Ballycarney, Co. Wexford.
