Some calving cows and heifers may just need more time to go through the different stages of labour, rather than have immediate assistance to get the calf out quickly. Yet too many dairy and beef herds ...

Attitudes to calving ease vary widely among suckler beef producers. While some clients expect to calve one-third to half of their heifers, and consider this acceptable, others are disappointed if they ...

The calving process is natural and a majority of time it happens without much fanfare—which is by design. However, there are situations where cows or heifers need help and intervention is necessary to ...

Experienced farm vet and pedigree Aberdeen-Angus breeder, Hugh Thomson, believes many farmers are chasing high prices in the store ring for Continental-type calves – at the expense of cow health, calf ...

Most of you reading this now will be getting ready for calving and lambing in the next month. Every year when this time comes around, us farmers promise ourselves that we will do better and not repeat ...

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MANY researchers, and successful dairy farmers, regard nutrition and management of dry cows more important, and as difficult to manage, as milking period management. Their aim is to have cows drying ...