It’s autumn and your cows are nearing the end of their lactation. They may only have 60 days to go. And you’ll be wanting them to keep milking as long as possible. Provided that they are also putting on body condition. Here are 10 Quick and Easy Ideas and...
Revive your Animal Health- 10 Quick and Easy Ideas
How To Fix Low Milk Protein
There are many reasons why your cows could be producing less milk protein than you would like. Your cows are like high performance cars. Unlike a car though you can’t lift up the bonnet and take a look inside. That’s where our imagination comes in. And the brainstorming. ...
Getting Best Returns on Your Animal Health Spend
The only thing wrong with reducing animal health costs is what do you do when you’ve got them as low as you can?. What then?. Getting a better return on the money you already spend on animal health is a different approach. It opens up your mind to more...
Your Methane Emission Questions Answered
Given the choice of the smell of methane in a cows burp or a kiss from my dog after he’s eaten a sun dried fish carcass scavenged from the beach, I’d pick the burp hands down. Nowadays though there’s a growing awareness of the impact of greenhouse gases...
Five Ways To Keep a Cow and Her Liver Healthy This Autumn
When you stop to think about it a cows liver is an amazing thing, and a huge asset for her. An important function of this organ is to take short chain fatty acids from the rumen and transform them into glucose and energy. Not only that, it has the...
Five Surprising Things About Metabolisable Energy
“Metabolisable energy” has been in the news again this week. Specifically an item about the High Metabolisable Energy ryegrass cultivars that are being developed by Ag Research Scientist Greg Bryan and his team. To help increase productivity AND reduce environmental footprint. The field trials are going to be done...
How to Make Sense of Scientific Articles in 30 minutes or Less!!
Finding the nuggets in scientific articles doesn’t have to be frustrating and time consuming. Here’s a five step process that uses your natural talent. It’s fun and even better, the information will stick. Because you added your own creativity to it! This example is from a Dairy...
10 Top Ways to Make Your Cows Comfortable.
Give them enough space….. to lie down or to get to feed easily. Use the backing gate sparingly. Cows want to be milked and will into the shed voluntarily most of the time. Keep them in their mobs. They are social animals with their own pecking orders. Putting a...