Dairy Calves - News & Insights
Stay updated on the latest dairy calf management strategies. Explore expert advice on colostrum management, calf nutrition, disease prevention, and the beef-on-dairy trend to ensure a healthy, productive future for your herd.
Amidst light trade through the December holidays, Holstein springer values mostly held their month-over-month values to round out 2021.
Raising quality heifers is a priority on every farm.
Dialing into greater ration precision can greatly enhance likelihood your calves are routinely receiving the ration you intend for them.
Have you ever had a cow come down with a disease while she was pregnant? Probably so. But does that illness impact the calf? Maybe not.
As one of the top scourges to calf raisers, cryptosporidium is an ever-present challenge that rarely takes a holiday.
Calves with navel infections will present wet or pus ridden navel cords and their navel areas will be swollen, hard, and painful to the touch.
Holstein springer values remained stalled in Wisconsin, but saw an upward tick in all other reported markets over the past month.
Switching to autofeeders and group housing is a significant change that has been met on dairies with both success and failure.
It appears that making sure dry cows are comfortable and encouraged to rest influences the survival of their newborns.
There has been a huge shift in consumer attitude towards food over the past four decades. Today’s consumer wants to know where their food comes from, how it was made and the succeeding impact on the environment.
Richard Bosma, a dairy farmer in Abbotsford, British Columbia, is just one of the many farmers in in British Columbia who was forced to evacuate.
Winter ushers in a season of high tide for scours and pneumonia in preweaned calves. The sooner their sickness is detected, the more effective treatment and supportive therapy will be. Here’s a list of 10 ways to help.
Newborn calves have only 3-4% body fat, which is not much to spare when trying to stay warm in the colder weather.
One of the first lessons Penn State’s Tara Felix tries to teach newbie dairy beef feeders is that cattle raised for beef need grain, not forage.
Born with very little natural immunity, a calf’s odds are stacked against it from the moment it hits the ground.
The evolution of dairy production and the industry’s future will be the focus of many presentations on the agenda of the 2021 Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council (DCRC) Annual Meeting.
Raising healthy, well-grown replacement heifers that turn into profitable, reliable cows does not have to be complicated, but it does have to be consistent.
Held in Las Vegas Nov. 30 - Dec. 2, the 18th Annual MILK Business Conference has a great line-up of speakers and sessions to help dairy producers capitalize on and further develop their strengths to work for them.
A team of Brazilian researchers studied the thermoregulation capacity of calves fed various levels of colostrum, then determined which of the animals were best able to keep themselves warm.
The Klipp family shares their journey of going all in with calf technology.
Want to keep disease out of your calf barn? If so, it might be prudent to take a page from the biosecurity measures of our pig-and-poultry-raising kin, and set up a “Danish entry.”
As awareness of animal welfare grows, new methods of detecting and evaluating stress and pain in calves are being evaluated. Researchers are exploring heart rate variability as an accurate, non-invasive assessment tool.
Taking time to weigh options and put together a plan that best meets your management needs, while maximizing labor efficiency and calf performance, is crucial.
They’re a danger to milk cows, to be sure. But mycotoxins in feedstuffs also can be damaging to the health and development of calves and heifers.
One of the American Dairy Science Association’s in-depth “Discover” conferences is planned for late October 2021.
When building or remodeling a calf facility, there are five key factors every producer needs to keep in mind.
With more than a million people attending the Great New York State Fair annually, one of the must-see exhibits that the fair offers is the Dairy Cow Birthing Center.
Going to the county fair is an experience that kids of all ages work hard for all summer long. As a fair mom, I know all too well how rewarding it is to watch your children work hard with their summer 4-H projects.
Purchasing a couple of Jersey cows from a local sale barn in 1984 for their children, my in-laws Jim and Wanda Bohnert helped start a small 4-H project for their two sons, my husband, Scott, and his brother, Brian
Despite climbing feed costs and a huge national dairy herd size, Holstein springer values were steady to rising in three of four reported markets.