Rearing Animals [BE.RA]
Reducing Calving Difficulty – Pelvic Scoring Heifers Case Study
Making pelvic scoring part of one farmer’s heifer selection policy has enabled him to reduce stress, labour and costs involved in calving his heifer batch each year. Click download to…
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Profiting From Terminal Sire EBVs at Thistleyhaugh
In this video, Duncan Nelless explains how being involved in the RamCompare project has clearly demonstrated that differences in Estimated Breeding Values (EBVs) between rams are clearly shown in their…
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Reduce Risk Of Scald In Lambs This Season
Scald is caused by bacteria (Dichelobacter nodosus) in the grass and leads to damage to the soft tissue between the toes of lambs. It can lead to footrot if it…
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Creep Feeding Spring Born Suckled Calves
Decisions if/when to creep feed will depend on several factors such as cow condition/milk, grass quality in front of cows and calves and what the calves are destined for. It…
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Is Your Bull Working?
Is Your Bull Working? Now that bulls will have been out with cows for at least one cycle it is important to make sure that cows are holding to service.…
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Lead Poisoning Alert
Ahead of turn out livestock farmers should be aware of the risk of lead poisoning with the greatest risk of poisoning occurring in the period immediately following turn out. SAC…
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Using Potatoes as an Alternative to Barley for Finishing Cattle
Stockfeed potatoes can be used as an alternative to expensive barley and are worth considering for feeding to finishing cattle to spin out home grown barley stocks if they are…
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Remember The Golden Rule Of Calving!
We are getting reports of large numbers of twins currently being born. This makes it even more important to check for a second calf, especially for cows which have had a small calf and are leaner. It is often the second calf which takes longer to be born, has the highest chance of being mis-mothered and hence has the higher risk of dying.
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Testing Requirements For Bull Sales
Bull sale season is here once again. For those of you with pedigree animals to sell later in the year it’s time to think about the health testing that is required for sale animals. Most of the main breed societies endorse herd or individual animal screening for sale animals.
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