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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

• DRY COW ANTIBIOTICS - A change in minimum standards READ MORE

 

YOUNG STOCK MANAGEMENT

• COCCIDIA: The real problem is what you don’t see! READ NOW

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Practical Nutrition Solutions  READ NOW

• Johne’s Disease: Is it Stealing Milk from Your Vat  READ NOW

• OCCULAR CRYOSURGERY - Freezing tumours off eyeballs READ NOW

 

CALF MANAGEMENT

• The next generation calf scours vaccine NEW PRODUCT READ NOW

• Calf weaning READ NOW

• Colostrum management and 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

• 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

• Spotlight on BMSCC READ NOW

• NEW RESEARCH Improving Milk Quality with a Pre-calving MULTIMIN® Injection READ NOW

• 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 2023 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