Show Notes
Get your herd set up for a successful dry period and smooth transition into next season! Hosted by Maeve Keane, featuring: Dennis Howard, Munster Bovine and Coleman Purcell, Dairygold Nutritionist We covered: Key components of an effective dry cow and transition cow diet and Dosing & vaccination planning over winter. Poll Results: Do you blanket dose all cows for worms during the dry period? 75% yes 25% no Do you feel that you can body condition score your cows reasonably accurately? 71% yes 29% no Do you test your silage that’s going to be fed to dry cows? 62% yes 38% no.
More from Munster Bovine’s Podcast
Hosted by Alan Twomey, Dairy & Beef Geneticist with Munster Bovine, he was joined by: Elaine Dennehy, Munster Bovine – discussing vaccination and supporting calf health and performance. Murt Ryan, Beef Specialist with NCBC – sharing breeding advice and highlighting a selection of sires from the 2027 Suckler Catalogue for producing quality weanlings.
Dennis Howard was joined by Elaine Dennehy and Alan Twomey on this webinar, where they looked at two tools available to help farmers better understand and manage SCC. Elaine Dennehy explained how Genocells can help identify the individual cows contributing to high bulk tank SCC, giving farmers valuable information to help get to the source of an SCC problem. Alan Twomey will discussed our new High SCC Cows – Probability of Future Cure report, which uses age, SCC history and time of year to indicate the likelihood of a high SCC cow returning to a low SCC in future tests.
Raymond Ryan, Dairygold Milk Advisor spoke to Stuart Childs recently on The Dairy Edge Podcast about Milk Recording, Genocells and a new SCC Probability Report that's coming soon to Munster Bovine customers. For the full episode go to The Dairy Edge Podcast.
James Skehan was recently on The Beef Edge discussing his breeding programme and his AI synchronisation planning. For the full podcast go to The Beef Edge Podcast.
Dennis Howard hosted Ger Cusack and Ned Dunphy from Greenway AgriTraining in this webinar focused on Summer Lameness Management. During the webinar, we covered: 🐄 Understanding the causes of Mechanical lameness 📈 The impact of good mobility on herd performance and longevity 🎓 An overview of Greenway AgriTraining's lameness training programmes and how they can support farmers in improving hoof health and cow welfare 👣 Sound Cow Innovation Programme (SCIP), a pilot initiative with AHI involving 10 commercial dairy farms in Munster and the Midlands