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GEA FIL Colostrum Marking System
Having a clear and robust animal marking system at calving is key to preventing costly contamination. It is crucial to ensure your whole team, including relief staff, are using the same marking system. Through this short video we show you three simple strategies using FIL markers.
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Calving
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Get grass-ready calves in seven weeks
The secret to growing bigger grass-ready calves earlier is getting them off to a good start. This means having warm, healthy calves that have consumed colostrum in the first 18 hours along with a specific solid feed that will both grow the calf and the rumen from day one.
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Extra vigilance required this calving season
A year ago, many of you may not have heard of Mycoplasma bovis. Now it will have changed the way you think about on-farm biosecurity.
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Peach Teats help calves grow from day one
If there’s one piece of rubberware that can make or break your season, it’s the humble calf teat.
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Digestive health starts with the teat
Deciding which teat will offer the best solution for calf rearing success can be a confusing process. But by following the principles of nature, you can reduce the risk of nutritional scours, cross-suckling and poor weight performance associated with artificial feeding.
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Calf nutrition model produces more with less
The game is changing for New Zealand dairying as we face the challenge of producing more milk with less.
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Minerals for calving success
If your goal is to improve your herd’s calving performance, it makes sense to scrutinise your animals’ mineral balance. It plays a key role in calving success and any gaps are surprisingly easy to address. Ruminant nutrition specialist, Natalie Hughes, explains what’s important.
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Be prepared to calve with care
Calving is a key event in the farming calendar and the more prepared you are, the better. Having the right knowledge and skills for the job, the right equipment and a well-prepared team will help ensure all calves receive the best start to life.
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Optimise your profitability from autumn calving
Before and after calving there are challenges aplenty for farmers. However, when calving through autumn, there are a few additional nutritional issues to be aware of. SealesWinslow’s Science Extension Officer, Paul Sharp, provides some expert tips on how to ensure a strong start to a productive lactation.
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Technology helps solve heat detection puzzle
Better heat detection in dairy herds is recognised as one of the industry’s “low hanging fruit”, capable of delivering bankable profits within a year.
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The key to rumen development
Dairy farmers know how important rumen development is in young calves. Rumen development is the process that prepares and primes the engine room for lifetime production
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Avoiding winter accident pitfalls
August sees dairy farmers busy with calving and it’s also a time when certain injuries are more likely on farm.
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Simplify the tracking of young stock to target weights
The accurate and timely weighing of young stock is key for dairy farmers. Research by both DairyNZ and Massey University has shown growth rates in young dairy stock can have a lifetime impact on milk production.
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Calving hygiene sometimes a bucket of soapy water isnt enough
Fibre is essential to achieve a healthy, productive calf and particularly important for rumen development. As ruminants, cows require quality fibre in the diet to maximise production and to maintain health by sustaining a stable environment within the rumen.
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New generation of livestock scales really weigh up
Before starting work on the new TW-1 Weigh Scale, the Gallagher research and development team wiped their boards clean, put on their gumboots and headed to the farm.
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