Lungworm another challenging summer ahead on some farms If you asked me in 2019 what was one of the significant summer health challenges, I would have found lungworm probably at the top of that list. This parasite continues to cause problems in a lot of Irish farms.
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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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Background Once again PICA has been reported on several farms in the last two weeks. I was on one of those farms watching the cows rummaging in the ditches, with one lady out after milking chewing on black plastic she picked up. We often hear about this
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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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Coughing cows and respiratory disease Over the last couple of weeks again I’ve seen the issue of respiratory disease in dairy herds. This is an ongoing challenge some dairy herds face. While we often put it under the heading of coughing cows. It is the more
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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 47 Dairy herd health planning We all know the value of setting goals for ourselves and our businesses. Without a plan though goals can be difficult to achieve. From the outset dairy herd health planning must be an evolving process. The most important person to buy
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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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