Winter Dosing Principles – Dairy Cows
A moderate gastrointestinal parasites burden can increase the costs of with wintering cattle by 30% Anthelmintic resistance The genes responsible for anthelmintic resistance are believed to be present in…
View Post >Silage analysis YTD
DMD is up on last year with 2024 having nearly 50% of the silages analysed at over 70%. Be cautious with dry cow diets. We don’t want fat cows calving…
View Post >Dairygold Dry Cow nutrition Programme
The 2 most stressful times in a cows life are: 1. Weaning 2. The weeks leading up to and after calving KEY POINT: 50% of dairy cow metabolic problems occur…
View Post >Preventing New Udder Infections This Winter starts with a good drying off procedure.
A good dry off procedure is essential to prevent the introduction of new infection into the cow’s udder – hygiene is crucial here. Cow’s tails should be clipped in advance…
View Post >Feeding your stock this winter
By EDMOND CURTIN, B.Arg.Sc Dry cow: Cows in the wrong body condition score (BCS) need to have this rectified 2-3 weeks before calving starts. From then on a greater proportion…
View Post >To continue to milk or not to milk that may very well become the question?
Inevitably a time will come when grass runs out but before we consider the economics of continuing to milk, we must firstly recognise that it will cost the same to…
View Post >Why use DIGEST-IT?
DIGEST-IT: increases nutrient recovery, improving the fertiliser value of slurry, reduces ammonia emissions and odours, breaks down solids, reducing the time required to agitate and pump slurry, grows more, better…
View Post >Take the first step in controlling pneumonia this autumn with a Pre-Housing Dose.
Why dose cattle at this time of year? Cattle will have acquired both a gut worm and lungworm burden during the grazing season. Lungworm is the most significant parasite for…
View Post >August Advice
As we enter the month of August there are a number of key areas that need to be reviewed on dairy farms and decisions that are taken…
View Post >First cut silage fertiliser
We need to consider the compounds we are using on our silage grounds. Overall Soil chemical health is poor, with only 20% of our soil’s optimum for pH, P and…
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