Learning why and how some calves navigate life challenges better than others can provide clues into how to support individual ...

Beef and dairy farmers are being encouraged to develop calf hygiene protocols as part of efforts to prevent scours in their ...

When you raise dairy goats, you will soon find that even if you have a large family and you are consuming all of the delicious milk, cheese, and yogurt you possibly can (and so are all of your ...

Causes of calf scours include salmonella, E. Coli, Clostridium, viruses, coccidia, yeasts, and moulds, normally picked up from contaminated milk or feed. Dirty hind quarter. Diarrhoea may ...

The importance of feeding calves the right nutrition, including transition milk, was thrown into sharp focus on a North Cork dairy farm after a TB breakdown in the herd. Mary and Denis O’Mahony ...

Europe consumes a lot of milk, which requires many calves to be born. But nobody wants them. They are badly treated, or simply killed. The organic sector, meanwhile, is resisting an easy ...

In another study, calves fed a mixture of 90% milk replacer and 10% colostrum replacer from Days 2 to 14 had higher body ...

This means the rumen is not yet developed and digestion of milk and colostrum occurs within the acidic environment of the abomasum (the fourth stomach chamber of the adult cow). Throughout the ...