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Scald In Lambs

…disease. Gathering for management tasks, or congregation of animals around troughs and buckets makes it easy for the bacteria to spread from animal to animal. It can be found on…

Stay Clean, Stay Safe

…have been exposed to lambing ewes. Many infections are invisible to the naked eye and can enter the body through the mouth or broken skin after contact with contaminated animals….

Parasite Control at Winter Housing

…change in the weather and flooding in some areas, many animals are now coming inside for the winter. Housing is an ideal time to get on top of parasites to…

Milk Manager News January 2023 – Key Performance Indicators for Measuring Fertility

…the capacity to provide misleading results. A cow/heifer needs to have calved more than once before a figure can be generated, therefore any animals that fail to get back in…

How to Spot Q Fever and What Action to Take

…returning for calving. There are also reports of Q fever being the cause of more subtle disease in herds such as infertility. Onward disease spread both to other animals and…

Business and Policy September 2025 – Policy Brief

…Cattle EID. While Ultra High Frequency technology has the advantage that it can provide automatic multi-animal scanning compared to Low Frequency technology which scans one animal at a time; UHF…

Milk Manager News May 2023 – Cows Off Colour? Know The Signs!

…areas of the animal to examine are: Eyes Healthy eyes are bright and alert with no sign of discharge. The eye should sit right up against the bottom eyelid, but…