Search results for: animal welfare updates
Search results for: animal welfare updates
MMN January 2024 – Colostrum Quality from Heifers
…higher yielding animals producing poorer quality colostrum. The quality is likely to be poor if more than 8.5 litres are obtained immediately post-calving. A US study based on 1,972 heifer…
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Digital Dermatitis – Are you detecting it early enough?
…to return the cow to an uninfected status. The best we can hope for with these animals is to achieve dormant, inactive lesions”. If DD lesions are not detected and…
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Scotland’s Terrestrial and Aquatic Mammals
…occurring on their farm. With 3 steps for each species on what can be done to attract these animals to your farm, and where funding is available to do this….
Read More >Climate Change Focus Farm: Nether Aden
…performance both prior to and during the mating period. Taking a detailed look at actual weight of beef sold per animal and the overall income per animal sold. This has…
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Identifying And Treating Lameness In Cattle
…that pain and alleviate it. Watch the animal from a distance as it is walking – is the lameness coming from the foot or the leg? There are often clues…
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Bio-acoustic Monitoring Solutions for Land Managers
…to set baselines and measure change. Bio-acoustic monitoring, using birds and bats as biodiversity indicators may be one way to achieve that. Why record animal sounds rather than images? Animal…
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Forage Budgeting Guide for the Dairy Herd
Introduction Forage budgeting is a useful management tool to plan feed stocks ahead for the coming year. It should be carried out six to eight weeks after all forages have…
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Milk Manager News May 2023 – Making Smart Culling Decisions
…trying to treat a problem cow. Assuming that the replacement animal is more productive than the one she is replacing, if the cost to rear dairy heifers or to buy…
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Hay Instead of Silage?
…huge difference in meeting animal requirements. Poor hay will not meet the requirements of any animal for maintenance. For example, if fed alone, dry suckler cows in good condition two…
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