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The new technology allows for milk replacers to be formulated in a way that more closely resembles bovine milk, compared to milk replacers traditionally based on available dairy industry bioproducts. Photo: Canva

02-11-2023 | News

LifeStart Calf Symposium unveils scientific discoveries

Diagnosing bovine respiratory disease requires intensive and specialised labour that is hard to find. So, precision technologies based on IoT devices scan help detect behavioural changes before outward clinical signs of the disease are manifested. Photo: Andrea van Schaik Fotografie

02-08-2023 | Article

Technology for earlier diagnosis of bovine respiratory disease

In terms of resting time, calves spent more time lying down in the hour following feeding when they received human contact, irrespective of the housing system. Photo: Misset

20-04-2023 | Article

Human contact enrichment improves dairy calf welfare

Feed programs must be designed to fit the nutritional needs of calves and delivered in a way that allows them to express natural behaviours. Photo: Ruud Ploeg

08-02-2023 | Article

The surplus calf puzzle

Launched 2 years ago, the Strategy has led to an increasing number of beef cross calves being registered from the dairy herd. Photo: Joris Telders

29-06-2022 | News

Successful supply of dairy-bred cows in the spotlight

Researchers investigated the effect of different liquid feeds on the growth, immunity and gut health of dairy calves.

07-06-2022 | Article

Benefits of waste milk in dairy calves

Calving at 24 months of age does not negatively affect future performance; rather, it improves overall lifetime milk production performance by up to 13%.

06-06-2022 | Article

Heifer calving at the correct age

Remember to walk through the calves regularly allowing the calves to get used to human contact. This should encourage calves to be quieter, more easily managed and milked when mature. Photo: Chris McCullough

24-03-2022 | Article

Rearing the 2022 dairy heifer requires attention to detail

Past research has shown that perinatal calf mortality worldwide is between 2.4% and 9.7% with one UK paper estimating mortality to be 7.9% . Photo: Canva

11-01-2022 | Article

Driving down dairy calf mortality rates in the UK

Photo: Michel Zoeter

17-12-2020 | Article

Keeping calf pneumonia at bay