Sheep lameness is one of the most important health and welfare issues affecting sheep farms in the UK. The 5 Point Plan has been developed to help manage footrot in particular. However, some of the principles are important to controlling other causes of lameness.
In […]
How does this sound:
47% reduction in dry cow antibiotic use and a saving of £850
This was achieved through a selective dry cow therapy (SDCT) project we organised with Farming Connect on a client’s 180 cow unit, for a full year. The […]
Avoiding residue failures and ensuring your milk is of the highest quality is crucial. So you need to be able to milk with confidence to positively promote the amazing product that is milk.
We don’t need to remind any of you of the media storm […]
It’s coming towards that time of year….. lambing time! The 6 weeks pre-lambing are crucial as 70% of the lamb’s growth is in this period; causing ewe requirements to double but having reduced appetite from being heavily pregnant. Getting pre-lambing nutrition right is essential for a good lambing […]
Most of you from our Whitchurch practice will have met Raquel out on farm by now. We’ve roped her in to tell us a bit more about her region of Spain.
When I say […]
Mastitis is considered to be one of the most frequent and costly diseases in the dairy industry. The economic consequences of both clinical and subclinical mastitis are due to treatment costs, production losses, culling and increased risk of other diseases. Streptococcus uberis mastitis especially.
Changes […]
We want to introduce a new initiative, which we think will help make the BVD vaccination process easier. Introducing BVD Day!
In the past couple of years, there have been many BVD initiatives brought to the industry to try and reduce the presence […]
The Clarifide genomic test has been spoken about a lot recently, so we wanted to give you our overview:
Both are in-depth genomic tests that can give an indication on genomic […]
Cows coming in for autumn housing, many of you will be doing some annual vaccination boosters. So Tom J is offering some helpful reminders on timings.
We can all agree that vaccinations are a […]
Most of you will be very well seasoned when it comes to tupping. But there is never any harm in just having a recap on the importance body condition scoring for tupping. Pete gives us some ‘tup’tastic […]
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