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MASTITIS

• Gram negative / Coliform mastitis READ NOW

• Teat condition is udderly important READ NOW

• Increasing mastitis cure rates READ NOW

• Practical tips to consider when drying off your herd READ NOW

• Correct administration of dry cow therapy and teatseal READ NOW

• Heifer teatsealing: A comparison READ NOW

• Use of intramammary penicillin to treat mastitis READ NOW

• Feeding regime tips for drying off READ NOW

Drying off rules & guidelines READ MORE

 

YOUNG STOCK MANAGEMENT

• Keeping an eye on the future: Managing your heifers READ NOW

• Bone fractures in first-calving dairy heifers READ NOW

• Heifer teatsealing checklist READ NOW

• Coughing cattle READ NOW

• Drenching youngstock: A gut worm’s garden of eden READ NOW

• Preventing coccidia & worms with a dual active oral drench READ NOW

• Managing BVD like COVID-19 READ NOW

• Growing great calves READ NOW

• Importance of refugia READ NOW

• Minerals: the highs & lows READ NOW

 

Cow Health & Wellbeing

Body condition scores: Is your herd where you want it to be READ NOW

Coughing cattle READ NOW

Bloat Oil or Rumenox READ NOW

Post calving diseases focus – LDA’s READ NOW

Managing BVD like COVID-19 READ NOW

Drenching adult dairy cattle: Eprinex READ NOW

Dirty cows READ NOW

How now down cow READ NOW

When she won’t get up: Down cow nursing care READ NOW

Reap the rewards of controlling inflammation and pain READ NOW

Nitrate testing of winter crops READ NOW

Winter crop feeding: The eleven commandments of fodder beet feeding for healthy dairy cows READ NOW

Protect you and your family from Salmonella READ NOW

Downer cow care READ NOW

Taking the hurt out of inflammation at calving READ NOW

New rules for disbudding and dehorning cattle READ NOW

Welfarm programme READ NOW

Minerals: the highs & lows READ NOW

Are your cull cows fit for transport READ NOW

Eyes - Let’s take a closer look! READ NOW

Liver Biopsy in Cattle READ NOW

 

CALF MANAGEMENT

Calf weaning READ NOW

Failure of passive transfer READ NOW

Growing great calves READ NOW

Hygiene Hygiene Hygiene! READ NOW

Enhancing calf immunity with MultiMin READ NOW

Debudding READ NOW

Calf vaccination READ NOW

Calf scours: Fail to plan, Plan to fail READ NOW

Protect you and your family from Salmonella READ NOW

Calf drenching and minerals READ NOW

New rules for disbudding and dehorning cattle READ NOW

Suspected poisoning of a heading dog after calf milk replacer ingestion READ NOW

Calf scours: Stopping an outbreak READ NOW

 

LAMENESS

• Lameness READ NOW

• Improve cure rates for lame cows with pain relief READ NOW

• Recording all lame cows: Why bother? READ NOW

• Early identification of lameness. READ NOW

 

MILKING MANAGEMENT

Teat condition is udderly important READ NOW

Flexible milking frequency: Is there a better way of milking READ NOW

Improving milk quality READ NOW

Culture to cull READ MORE

 

REPRODUCTION

Achieving your repro goals: An interview with contract milker Ben Jagger READ NOW

Pregnancy test results 2021-22 READ NOW

Benefits of early aged pregnancy scanning READ NOW

Give non-cyclers a helping hand READ NOW

Heifer synchrony: Exciting results from a local RVC trial READ NOW

Pre-mating checklist READ NOW

Multimin: Looking to inject that extra edge in reproductive performance READ NOW

Dirty cows READ NOW

Heifer synchrony READ NOW

Non-cycler treatments READ NOW

Give non-cyclers a helping hand READ NOW