replacer

Written by John Swire Farmers in Great Britain buying Volac-manufactured calf milk replacer can claim two free bags of product with every pallet purchased during May, June and July 2020. The British family-owned company has asked its merchant partner distributors to support this free product...

It is no secret to everyone in agriculture that public perception is putting increasing pressure on running a more sustainable enterprise. It is fair to say that we have a responsibility to not only be the most sustainably efficient farms possible, but also to publicise and educate the general...

Anybody tried it ?

Does anyone still do it? I rear 15 calves a month and I was wondering what the pros and cons are in doing this . Was thinking could save money on milk powder and the calves would grow quicker! How much feed would the cow need and how many calves could you put on her?

First time lamber, 2 cracking energetic lambs. She's fit, been on adlib sugarbeet in the field with ample grass. Medium sized udder, but bugger all milk, can squeeze a drop out every now and then, lambs sucking away feverishly and not getting filled. I've given them colostrum and a couple of...

Written by Agriland Team Before the lambing season kicked off, farmers should have set up a designated area for pet/surplus lambs to be reared in. Ideally, farmers don’t want to have to rear lambs artificially. However, sometimes this situation is unavoidable, especially in cases where a...

Plenty drive around in 4X4s plenty have a few acres and a sheep. How would you prove if stopped you are a bonafide farmer?

following on from some of the threads on here i was wondering how people score their sheep?

Written by Agriland Team One of the stand out ways of reducing your chances of picking up Covid-19 (coronavirus) is keeping your distance from other people and, although farming is a pretty isolating profession already, there are still many reasons why farmers allow people to enter their farms...

Written by Agriland Team Bacteria and viruses are present in large numbers on all farms, and the diseases they and other germs cause are common and costly. Without proper cleaning and disinfection, the germ-load will increase in calf buildings – and on equipment – with disease easily spread...

Written by Agriland Team In the following article/video of the ‘Calf Health and Management Series’, Volac’s Rebecca O’Sullivan brings us through a step-by-step guide to mixing milk replacer correctly and consistently, while also noting how much to feed. “We recommend feeding 6L of milk...

I don’t get many lambs with bloat, just a couple a year normally but it never seems to be a good outcome. Lost one last night. In the middle of the day he started to look a little tucked up and swollen. he was in his mum and had a load of colostrum. She’s a very milky ewe. Other lamb look...

Written by John Swire Sheep farmers are encouraged to ‘gem up’ on mixing lamb milk replacer to make sure they get the very best results when feeding it through a feeder or by bottle. As the peak lambing season approaches, the pressure is on to maximise the lamb crop, and this year many farmers...

Written by Agriland Team We are entering the thick of the calving season on dairy farms across the country, and as the number of calves on farms begins to grow, so does the risk of a scour outbreak. Scour is the leading cause of death in calves under three months-of-age. An outbreak of scour...

We are currently welcoming a rocketing trade for both ewes and lambs with prices here in the South West consistently reaching 3 figures. Scanning percentages going into this lambing season have seen an average increase of 10 – 15% following the effects of the tough spring and dry summer in 2018...

Have a calf born about a week ago, put it on the cow when it was born but didn't want to suck, felt the belly & thought it full enough to have sucked on it's own. Noticed it starting to get skinny so topped it up with a bag, thinking the cow maybe didn't have enough, then this morning noticed it...

Is anyone using life-gard paste or used it in the past instead of powdered colostrum replacer. Seem like a handy idea instead of the powder i always end up spilling alot or dropping the tub with wet cold hand and its obviously not cheap. And the tube looks alot safer for my clumbsy self.

Choosing a calf milk replacer (CMR) can be a minefield with so many available. The CMR market is easily divisible into two groups; whey-based powders and skim-based powders providing the two main sources of dairy protein. Choosing the right powder for your system is not only vital to the...

Written by Agriland Team The farmers involved in the Teagasc Green Acres Calf to Beef Programme visited Robert Noad’s farm during a tour to the UK last week. Both Robert and his wife Lucy farm in Strand, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, in the UK, and milk a herd of predominantly Holstein Friesian cows...

Written by Agriland Team Farming in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, in the UK, David Maidment – alongside his father – has been operating a calf-rearing enterprise, under ABP’s Blade Farming system, for the past 12 years. David opened the gates of his farm to the participants in Teagasc Green Acres...