Heat stress on cows this summer With several very warm days, what’s the risk of heat stress occurring on our cows. Background Heat stress in cows is a big challenge globally. This is because cows are quite sensitive to extremes of temperature. It is simple because
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Chasing mineral status on our farms Background When we look at the mineral status on farms there are often two distinct scenarios. The first is where we are investigating a mineral deficiency. The second approach is a more long term approach to monitoring minerals on the farm.
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I joined MSD animal health to facilitate a recent webinar on all things ticks and milk drop in dairy herds. They had two expert speakers on the webinar. The background My view on ticks is they are increasingly causing issues on farms. They are vectors
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That’s it with seven hours of videos and over 40k words I’m finished #50in50. All the content will be available on my website for people to look back on. Huge thanks to Nettex, Progiene, and Rumenco for their support in helping me put #50in50 together. I am
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Forty-eight topics Thanks to everyone for their suggestions around topics they wanted to be covered. I ran out of time but not topics. In today’s video, I did a quick summary of some topics I didn’t get to cover. In fact, since its video 48/50, I covered
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Video 46 Suckler herd health planning Herd health planning is certainly something more suckler farmers could engage with. With poor margins, this is somewhere where we can control profit inside the farm gate. For a start with any plan, we need to set some goals. We
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One of my big life lessons has been that there can be lessons everywhere if we chose to open our eyes and ears. I like reading about different businesses and problem-solving in different sectors. It opens your mind to new ideas and new ways of thinking. Right
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Video 44 Mycoplasma Bovis Farmers and vets will be becoming more familiar with this pathogen. Mycoplasma Bovis is a bacteria causing a number of clinical symptoms in both beef and dairy herds. In suckler herds, it is often around weaning time where I’m seeing it reported. Last
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Video 41 Heat detection We have entered the breeding season a critical time of year for farmers and their cows. In grass-based systems achieving a tight breeding season ensures maximum days in milk and days at grass next year. It also ensures we can keep cows
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Video 38 Photosensitization in cattle While it’s great to get cattle outdoors it is still time to be vigilant and watching animal health. While we all welcome sunlight it can be involved in a rare and sporadic disease in cattle. While sunlight is only part
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