As calving season looms in the not so distant future, the first things that come to my mind is considering plans for pre-calving vaccination of pregnant cows, and thinking about controlling calf ...

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Monitoring heifer growth, and making management decisions based upon it, is proving to be an increasingly important practice ...

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Sometimes the farm personnel give the calf another dose of 4 tablets either the next day or after two days ... As with any medication, including just about any drug administered to dairy cattle, there ...

Historically the dairy industry bred all cows to dairy genetics, using the 50 percent heifer calf crop to ensure sufficient heifers from which to select the best genetics for the milking herd. The ...

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Harper Adams University’s dairy herd has made the final round of the 2024 NMR/RABDF Gold Cup and is competing with five other ...