Dairy
Many heifer calves on farms will now be approaching 10 to 12 weeks of age meaning that they should be strong enough to be completely...
Many calves will be approaching eight weeks of age in the coming days and weeks which means the gradual weaning of calves is set to commence
Beef
This time of the year sees suckler farmers weaning calves from their cows and reducing stress in livestock during...
Sheep
Ensuring ewes have time to recuperate is an important consideration while farmers are weaning lambs their flocks.
A total of 195 calves have been weaned off milk on the ABP Demo Farm as of Wednesday, May 1 and while the calf rearing...
Pig/Poultry
The recent Teagasc annual pig conference provided an opportunity to highlight the nutritional factors that impact on piglet performance
Beef Technical
Many farms rearing calves are at a stage where calves are eating sufficient amounts of dry feed and are ready to be weaned off milk replacer.
Dairy Technical
Avoiding stress at weaning is key to a successful weaning process and ensuring that the calves continue achieve growth targets into the future.
For farms that start calving in mid-January it may now be time to start looking at potentially weaning some of the older calves.
The task of weaning lambs, once they get to between 12-14-weeks-old, will be on the to-do list for many sheep farms over the coming weeks.
The correct weaning of heifer calves is an important step in the management of your future replacement heifers.
Spring is just around the corner and now is a good time to begin the weaning of autumn-born calves to reduce some of the workload on farms.
As we head into the autumn months, many suckler farms with spring-born calves will be preparing to...
Tomás O'Leary, a sheep farmer from Co. Kerry, spoke about when he starts selecting ewe lambs for breeding and how many he keeps.
An efficient heifer-rearing system is crucial, as it determines the future income and sustainability of a dairy enterprise.
Farmers rearing dairy-beef calves this spring are getting to a stage where calves are getting ready for weaning.
Poor conception rates in replacement heifers are often due to heifers being underweight by the start of the breeding season.
Video
As part of the Green Acres Calf To Beef Programme with Teagasc, AgriLand is hosting a series of programmes presented...
Farmers will turn their attention to weaning spring-born calves; this could be done earlier this year to ease feed demand on cows.
Concentrate feeding takes the setback out of weaning, reduces stress and helps maintain animal thrive.
With many herds not planning to wean until October, creep grazing of the calves, ahead of the cows from now until weaning, needs to be considered.
As we head into the autumn, most suckler farms with spring born calves will be looking to sell these weanlings in the next two months.
Weaning can be considered as the end of the ewe’s work for one season and the start of the new season, Pat McCambridge of CAFRE says.
