By Dr Clive Dalton Bonding of cow & calf only takes a few minutes (Photo Karen Managh) Bonding In dairy cows In beef cows All-round best option Remove the calf at birth and get it off the paddock into a clean dry pen to give it a measured feed of its mother’s colostrum. Disclaimer This … Read more
By Dr Clive Dalton Training? Who needs training? There have always been far too many farms where new staff arrived and it was assumed that they knew what to do – because they said they did at the interview. It’s often not till after a costly disaster that you find out they really didn’t! There … Read more
By Clive Dalton The hoose cuwBefore the days of supermarkets, fridges, powdered and tinned milk, every ootbye farm up the North Tyne and Rede had a ‘hoose cuw’, as well as a heifer timed to calve when the main cow was dried off. Shepherds and hinds were allowed to keep a cow as part of … Read more
Cattle, farming, husbandry, making plans for calving, avoiding stress on family, staff & stock, checklist, feeding, health, farm dairy By Dr Clive Dalton The main aimTo get through calving with minimal stock losses and minimal stress on family, staff and stock.Good signs in the staff & herd Bad signs in the staff & herd Really … Read more