Spring turnout…it’s a highlight in the calendar for most livestock farmers. After months of gruelling work keeping livestock housed throughout the winter, we look forward to fairer weather, more daylight hours, and seeing livestock enjoying some fresh spring grass. It can be tempting at this stage to down tools and let nature work its magic. […]
Tag Archives: crystalyx
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Jan
Jan
Having access to the correct nutrition is never more important than in the lead up to calving. Here we consider the suitability of a cattle mineral block in achieving this efficiently and effectively. For any beef or dairy system – calving health, calving ease, calf ‘get-up-and-go’, and colostrum and milk production – hinges on effective […]
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Aug
Aug
Extreme rainfall is steadily on the rise and is impacting on the availability of micronutrients to grazing animals. The Met Office has reported via the UK Climate report that the UK has become nine percent wetter over the last few decades. EPA Climate Ireland have also reported a seven percent increase in rainfall in the […]
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Aug
Aug
is Whatever your land type or market target, the number of lambs you rear will impact the income you reap from your sheep enterprise. Tupping sheep is the starting point for avoiding those empty sheep that don’t pay the bills. The best thing you can do is to look back at your previous lambing’s. What […]
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Apr
Apr
Uncontrollable challenge is the norm for dairy farmers. Feed price volatility, unpredictable and sometimes extreme weather, tightening environmental requirements, and subsidy changes – to name a few. The Crystalyx range of cattle licks offers a cost-effective, all-weather and production-enhancing approach to supplementation. For one challenge taken control of. The Crystalyx range of low moisture […]
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Jul
Jul
Summer mastitis predominantly occurs during the warm summer months with cattle out at pasture. The disease changes little over the years, affecting the same farms year after year and often just certain fields on those farms. The disease affects non-lactating cows, but can also affect replacement heifers, leading to devastating consequences. Very few affected quarters […]
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Oct
Oct
Feeding calves – whether beef calves or replacement dairy heifers – is complex and costly. No matter how fine-tuned the system, there’s always opportunity to optimise… Nutrition and housing are the two major impactors on calf performance. Calves need a clean and comfortable environment as well as a consistent and correct nutritional programme to grow […]
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Sep
Sep
Dairy and beef farmers find themselves in the almost unique positions of having grass banks building up on their farms on a par with what they would expect to be dealing with during the very best spells of spring weather. But irrespective of how good grass growth rates are at the present time, it must […]
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Feb
Feb
Lambing is looming and it’s the calm before the storm, so to speak. To minimise the storm, we need to use the calm to ensure ewes are in the right body condition. High energy sheep buckets is often just what they need. Is body condition scoring really necessary? Having breeding ewes in the right body […]
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Sep
Sep
Many cases of milk fever can be prevented, by ensuring normal blood magnesium levels are maintained in the dry period. This is particularly true of summer and autumn calving cows which spend their entire dry period at grass, often eating forages with a low available magnesium content. Milk fever (parturient hypocalcaemia) means a lowering of […]
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