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SHARING OPTIONS: A batch of 25 Aberdeen Angus and Hereford bulls and heifers arrived on farm on Monday. A sure sign that spring is on the way is marked with the arrival of the first dairy-beef calves of the year. Twenty-five Angus and Hereford, bulls and heifers made up the first batch of calves on the Irish Farmers Journal Thrive demonstration farm at John Hally’s outside Cashel in Co Tipperary. Calf price, which has been quite high this spring compare...

Dairylink: getting ready for grazing in Antrim 0001-11-30

× Close This content is copyright protected! However, if you would like to share the information in this article, you may use the headline, summary and link below: Title: Thrive weekly roundup: winter performance check and calf arrival Strong winter performance on the Thrive demo farm has set the farm up for a positive grazing season, while the countdown is on to calf arrival on the programme farms.

SHARING OPTIONS: Andrew MacKays May calving cows being fed out on the hill at his farm Greenvale in Caithness. In 2016, the Gammies registered 32 calves across three different breeds/crosses. Come 2020, with the expansion plans well under way, they registered 74 calves from just one breed/cross. There are more than double the number of calves now being born on the farm. In 2018, Andrew decided to simplify his suckler herd and concentrate on only Limousin g...

SHARING OPTIONS: Calving is progressing well on Newford Farm, with 32 cows calved in the first three weeks of the calving season. It has been a busier week for Newford Farm manager Iarlaith Collins, with another 16 calves born in the week leading up to Saturday afternoon (13 February). This brings the total number of calves born since calving started in late January to 32 out of 92 due to calve or about 35% completed. Iarlaith is expecting calving to conti...

Thrive: sire list for 2021 and tips for calf rearing in cold weather 2021-02-13

The milking herd is fed in two groups on the Martin farm. \ Houston Green The first steps of the 2021 silage campaign have been completed on Owen and James Martin’s farm in Dromintee, Co Armagh. This involved carrying out a soil analysis across the farm and drawing up a nutrient management plan for the year ahead. The Martins run 160 Holstein cows in a fully housed system, so the main focus in the fields is to produce three or four cuts of high-quality grass silage each season. The repeated ...

Thrive: tips for rearing calves in cold weather 2021-02-10

SHARING OPTIONS: Calving has got off to a much faster start than anticipated on Newford Farm. There is only a handful of cows that on paper have reached their due date for calving, but, as of Friday evening, there was 12 cows calved. Farm manager Iarlaith Collins had preparations put in place well in advance of the breeding season, so there was no complications in this regard. Iarlaith also reports that it has been plain sailing for cows that have calved,...

Most calves on the Dairylink Ireland programme are born in the autumn. Dairylink Ireland participants reviewed the performance of heifer calves on their farms during an online meeting last week. Action points to improve growth rates were identified and will be implemented during the next calving season. Calf rearing strategies have assumed increasing importance in the dairy industry with research showing that heifer calves which achieve a pre-weaning liveweight gain (LWG) greater than 0.8kg/ca...