Your guide to vaccinations, worming, controlling parasites, and preventing and treating disease in your herd.
With a challenging summer, parasite burdens must be kept to a minimum as stock begin to head indoors to prevent a serious falloff in liveweight gain. Martin Merrick reports.
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Adam Woods previews this week’s special autumn animal health focus.
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From feeding rates to ration formulation and calf quality, there are several factors to be considered before starting to feed concentrates to weanlings. Martin Merrick reports.
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Keeping on top of health issues swill ensure the thrive of spring-born lambs to ensure a short finish period.
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Adam Woods takes a look at mastitis prevention and control ahead of the peak season for mastitis cases on suckler farms.
Adam Woods reports on an increase in red water cases in the last few weeks, especially in the northwest of the country.
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Adam Woods previews this week’s summer health Focus and what’s inside.
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Aidan Brennan has some key management advice for looking after dairy bred calves this summer.
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Adam Woods takes a look at the problem of late calving cows and what options are available to farmers.
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Declan Collins takes a look at the next steps after a calf is tested positive for BVD and has an update on positive results in 2024 so far.
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