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Feeding Pre-Calving Minerals
An important factor in the pre-calving period is to ensure the cow is getting adequate minerals in her diet. Mineral levels in UK silages are variable and are influenced by…
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Transitioning Off Fodder Beet
The importance of transitioning livestock on to fodder beet slowly, to allow the rumen bugs to adapt to the high sugar diet is well documented. However, as calving and lambing approaches, the slow and steady approach should also be used for transitioning the livestock off the beet.
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Lambing Equipment Checklist – Are You Ready For Lambing To Start?
Lambing is one of the busiest and most stressful times of the year, being well prepared is essential for a successful lambing season. Make sure that your lambing kit is ready with these must have items.
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Calving Equipment Checklist
Are you ready for the start of calving? Do you know where your calving ropes are? Is your medicine cabinet well stocked? With the first calf often arriving quicker than expected it’s a good idea to have checked that your calving equipment and essentials are ready for use.
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Needles
Before lambing, it is good practice to make sure you have all the equipment that you will require, and that it is clean, sterile and in working order.
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Managing Highly Conditioned Ewes In Late Pregnancy
After an exceptionally open winter, ewes may be in a high order of condition. However, as pregnancy progresses, time has run out to manage these ladies to lose condition, as…
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Nature Based Solutions for the Dairy Sector
In the weeks and months in the run-up to the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, we heard a lot about the need for farming to reduce emissions and address biodiversity…
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Spring is around the corner, are you ready for turnout?
It’s never too early to start planning for spring turnout; the evenings have started to get lighter and turnout will soon be upon us. Planning the transition from grass silage-based…
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Taking steps to make sure bigger fertiliser bills don’t create too big a hole in your cashflow
While the rising price of fertilisers have grabbed the headlines this autumn and winter and there has been much talk of how mitigate the prices rise in the field there…
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Start Preparations For Lambing Now
Nutrition In the last six weeks of pregnancy, the lambs grow 70% of their birth weight while the ewe is also starting to make colostrum and have enough energy for…
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