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Getting ready for spring is one of the themes at next January’s Irish Grassland Association dairy conference. For Cork farmers Maeve O’Keeffe and Jack Kearney, each spring brings different challenges.
With grass reserves depleting rapidly in recent weeks, many highly stocked flocks have found housing is on the horizon for all or a portion of ewes.
Mid-season flocks will now be housing ewes as grass supplies deplete, with feed space often the limiting factor when stocking pens.
Providing clean drinking water is a key part of winter management in housed cattle, but it is a task that is often overlooked.
Water supply issues have created extra work on Tommy Moyles' farm at the weekend and he is now going to have to look at alternative water storage options.
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With cattle now housed for winter, clipping animals can provide multiple benefits.
Providing calves that are suckling cows with a clean, dry bedded creep area is good practice during the housing period.
This week beef editor Adam Woods takes a look at autumn bull management, feeding weanlings, dealing with frost on beef farms and previews next week's IFJ suckler mart event in Kerry.
On farms that are housing cattle later than normal, this should be factored in to your choice of fluke product and when animals will be dosed.
