holstein

I'm needing some advice please. Need somewhere to "store" my calves until they're old enough for cubicles or turning outside They'll be in individual calf hutches until 4-6 weeks ish As much as the hutches are brilliant, I've found that once they get over 6 weeks certainly they become very time...

Written by Brian McDonnell from Agriland Ireland is set to see the introduction of new artificial insemination (AI) company to the market called BullWise. The company will be managed by Terry Dillon, with the company offering bulls from CRV global and Bova-AI. Furthermore, BullWise is now...

Just for a bit of fun and some general discussion what is everyone’s thoughts on there own ideal suckler cow? Maternal and paternal breeds? Size/weight? what would you/do you put her to?

Hi everyone I've been hanging around for a while reading a bunch of useful information on the forum and now I've got a couple of questions. First, let me introduce the farm, we have a dairy farm in canada milking about 55 holsteins plus all the replacement cattle. We are working on a project...

Written by William Kellett from Agriland The Down to Earth regenerative farming events for livestock producers is back with two events this year, following what the Royal Association Of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF) has called “unprecedented demand” from the inaugural event held in summer...

Anyone regret going into stabiliser cows? Seems a lot of herds coming for sale.

Having problems with calfs, they start off great but then after 2 or 3 weeks they just start getting smaller and die then, they get colostrum and plenty of it, its not scour or pneumonia, iv had the vet look at them when they were hear and had them dissect dead 1s and iv sent dead 1s to the lab...

We all know the pig boys are a bit boring and go for a commercial pink pig but which is the best breed of pig? I’ll go for the saddleback always like them to look at.

Hello all, After wanting to go into milk for a few year I've eventually hit the age I could start up. The family where not wanting to start up again for the reason of it being hard to get relief milkers and not wanting me to knacker myself milking twice a day all year. So after seeing a few...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland South Wales dairy farmer, Iwan Morgan, has been appointed as the judge of the National Holstein Show at UK Dairy Day 2023, Holstein UK has said. The ninth UK Dairy Day takes place at the International Centre in Telford on September 13, 2023...

A friend of mine who keeps Milking sheep to the east of Brno in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains has just written to tell me about his farming year. Last year he lost 4 sheep to Wolves, this year it increased to 14 and would have been more if they had not kept them by the house and kept...

Our heifer calving period will start in 4 weeks. See a new device on a website "TailJack.com" for training kicking heifers. Keeps the tail lifted. Its claimed its as effective as manual tail lifting. Has anyone used one?

As the title really. Opportunity has arisen to acquire a handful of the above cross as Heifers. FIL is dead against it, as he reckons they'll be prone mastitis, throw sh!t calves, and be poor as culls at the end. My argument is that they'll be milkier than our usual Sim X / Char X, smaller...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Canadian judge Pierre Boulet, described his 2022 Royal Ulster Agricultural Society (RUAS) Winter Fair interbreed champion as a “very special cow”. The animal in question is the Jersey 4th calver, Potterswalls Chrome Glamour. Bred and exhibited by...

Written by Brian McDonnell from Agriland The 36th Black and White dairy sale took place on Saturday, December 3, at Borderway Mart in Carlisle, England. The sale attracts buyers and sellers from across the world, with this year’s sale seeing buyers from six different countries. Top price at...

Only used calf jackets on problem calves but considering using them on winter hutch reared calves destined for market around 6 - 8 weeks old as noticing that indoor reared calves frequently doing better than outdoor ones. My question is to other users .. is there a big growth check when taken...

8 blue heifers 3-4 months Growing well Dehorned Wormed start of October Tb clear ready to go Out of Holstein/fresians Located near Newton abbot devon Can deliver locally £415 head

So after taking on more land we are expanding our breeding cows with most of them being BB out of dairy cattle. My first thought was a salar bull to keep the heifers for breeding but after talking to multiple people all have said the salar bullocks won’t sell well in our area. what are people...

Housing close to maximum capacity with heifers still due to calve in, rolling some spring calvers round that are giving not too much milk (<15 litres). They are still 4 months off calving... How would it impact them? Will they return to milk okay? Breed is Holstein, generally good condition...