Dairy
With the breeding season kicking off this week alongside Christmas, it is easy to disregard the few late autumn calvers.
Despite a return to more challenging market conditions, autumn milk output continues to increase in Northern Ireland.
As winter milking is already a costly system, keeping the somatic cell count (SCC) down is crucial...
With the autumn calving season well underway and pens quickly filling with calves, farmers must keep an eye out for early signs of pneumonia
Beef
With autumn calving is well and truly underway, focusing on the rumen development of young calves is a crucial aspect to the calving season
The first step to a successful winter milk herd is ensuring that mineral and feed are at optimum levels to produce high quality milk
With autumn calving ready to start, farmers should be asking themselves: how much light should cows be exposed to?
Cows are beginning to calve on autumn calving farms and colostrum is going to be crucial for the calves’ start in life
The next couple of weeks are crucial in getting prepared for the arrival of calves for autumn...
Milk fever (hypocalcemia) is a metabolic disorder where the cow’s blood calcium levels drop, typically within 24 hours after calving
Autumn calving may already have kicked off on some farms, but preparation will now be underway for herds calving from late September
With drying off for autumn calving herds set to take place soon, the body condition score of your herd will have to be assessed
We are now into the middle of November, which means that the start of the breeding season for the autumn calving herd is just over...
As we are now into the thick of autumn calving, it’s important to be considerate of keeping your...
Autumn calving is well and truly underway and it is important that farmers are making sure that their calves are receiving adequate...
Autumn calving is well underway for many autumn calving herds. Not only should you ensure that...
N.Ireland
As we get closer to the start of calving for the autumn calving herds, farmers need to ensure that calves are getting the best possible...
Securing optimal levels of winter milk performance in autumn calving cows requires a number of key management priorities to be addresse...
Monitoring of body condition score (BCS) in winter milk cows is important at this stage of lactation, to ensure excess condition is not lost.
A case of milk fever can have a detrimental impact on a cow’s performance during her subsequent lactation, so cases should ideally be avoided
Having good feed efficiency within winter milk systems is vital for a margin to be achieved on milk...
Calving is underway on autumn-calving or winter milk herds and as a consequence, there will be issues with calf health and scour.
The autumn-calving season will be getting underway on many dairy farms in the coming days and weeks.
