Tullamore Farm manager Shaun Diver gives an update on what’s been happening on the farm this week and how calving has been ...

Matt Fehr enters a farm pen while carrying a measuring tape. He corners a newborn calf, wraps the calf with tape around its ...

As beef cattle calving season is quickly approaching for most beef cattle ranchers, it may be a good time to refresh our ...

Getting six or seven hours of sleep will mean more work is done during the day and better decisions are made. The vast majority of cows will calve fine by themselves anyway. The weather forecast is ...

Every cow calved is a step closer to finishing the calving season, writes Cork-based dairy farmer Paula Hynes.

When it comes to having a successful calving season, Kansas State University Beef Cattle Institute experts say now is the time to make those preparations. This was the topic of a recent Cattle ...

As with each calving season, you can often see how it will go based on the first couple of calvings. Issues encountered in the first few births need to be addressed as soon as possible ...

Just do it: Grab a pen and paper to calculate the percentage of cows calving in the first 21 days of the calving season. This is a very important number to record and think about as one develops ...

Prior to calving Season it is important to take inventory of our facilities. Our working pens, chutes and alley ways need to be in good working order. If we have a calving barn or indoor facility ...

However, technologies such as calving cameras can help make it much easier by saving ... He moves those that look close to giving birth into one of three pens, depending how close they are to labour.

The improvement in fertility increased the pressure on their calving pens and staff, increasing the rate of mastitis infections. Discovering this problem led to Wallace and James discussing it as part ...