Can you stop nutritional calf scour?
The abomasum is a versatile organ which can expand significantly to hold 6L of milk/milk replacer at one time. The abomasum works to...
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- Apr 12, 2022
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4 Steps to Overcome Cryptosporidium
Cryptosporidium provides a real challenge for many calf-rearers. Animals infected with the parasite can shed millions of oocysts into the...
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- Mar 22, 2022
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Coughing Calves and Salmonella
Salmonella is likely under-diagnosed in herds due to its range of clinical signs. Whilst infections are well-known to be associated with...
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- Mar 15, 2022
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Is Energy Limiting Protein Use in Your Milk Powder?
Growth and body composition goals should be considered when choosing both milk powder composition as well as feed rate. The protein and...
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- Mar 8, 2022
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3 Things You Can Do Now To Improve Weaning
Weaning is undoubtedly one of the most stressful times of a calf's life. Here are three areas to consider when improving the transition...
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- Mar 1, 2022
- 2 min
Calf Nutrition and Future Performance
While genetics clearly play a key role in cow production measures, epigenetics (the environmental impacts on how genes are expressed) is...
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- Feb 15, 2022
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The Most Effective Steps to Control Johne's Disease
Testing for Johne's disease is only part of the overall strategy when aiming to reduce Johne's prevalence on farm. The most important...
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- Feb 8, 2022
- 2 min
Winter Warmers
Due to their weight to surface area ratio, neonatal calves are susceptible to significant heat loss which can impact on health and daily...
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- Feb 1, 2022
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What makes a good rearing system?
A 2021 study by the University of Nottingham assessed the impact of UK farm management variables in calf rearing on growth rate and...
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- Jan 25, 2022
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Pneumonia - Where to begin?
It is estimated 45% of calves in the UK have pneumonia before weaning with most cases being seen in calves at 5 weeks old. Detection and...
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- Jan 18, 2022
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Labour shortage and Calf Management
A survey by RABDF last year found '63% of farmers struggled to recruit' and 'nearly 1/3 considered leaving the industry due to a lack of...
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- Jan 10, 2022
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As milk prices rise, should we reconsider what we feed calves?
Improved health and growth has been seen with higher levels of milk feeding, and arguably even more so with whole milk feeding (C.B....
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- Dec 29, 2021
- 2 min
How do we capitalise on pre-weaning growth rates?
Feed conversion rates drop as calves age, so how do we get the most out of young calves? As we expect there is not one straight answer...
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- Dec 29, 2021
- 2 min
Calf focus: The latest on Red Tractor guidelines
Red Tractor changes were implemented in November 2021. The full revised V5 update can be found at https://assurance.redtractor.org.uk....
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