Animal Health

Managing and controlling disease and ensuring animal health and welfare is the most effective way to maintain or increase productivity from livestock. 

This page aims to group together Animal Health activity undertaken through the Farming Connect programme.


In this section:


| Podcasts
Episode 103 - Lameness in dairy cattle
How different methods of knowledge transfer influence behaviour change in dairy producers and…
| News
New Farming Connect modules will help farmers transition to SFS
30 April 2024   Farming Connect has launched a new set of online modules based around…
| Case Studies
Farming Connect Animal Health and Welfare Workshops help family farm shape a business ‘fit for the future’
29 April 2024 An eagerness to learn new skills and knowledge is helping mother and son Dianna…
| News
Transition milk trial targets calf health at Pembrokeshire dairy farm
25 April 2024   A Pembrokeshire spring-calving dairy farm is introducing a new feeding system…
| Podcasts
Episode 100- Staff management, Episode 4: People, purpose, processes and potential’ are key ingredients to running a successful team
In this last episode of our staff management series, Rhian Price is joined by Hannah Batty from LLM…
| Technical Articles
Starlings on Farm: Strategies to Protect and Control
Dr Natalie Meades: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.  December 2023  Image by Woods, et al. …

Events

18 Jul 2024
Understanding the benefits of growing a cereal and legume mix as a complete feed
Cowbridge
Join Farming Connect at one the Our Farms, Gelli Goll...
30 Jul 2024
Horticulture - Precision application of herbicides for late-stage weeding
Brecon
With the limited efficacy of residual herbicide options...
30 Jul 2024
Using IgG antibody as a Bio marker to standardise the transition milk feed
Abergwaun / Fishguard
Calves lose their ability to absorb antibodies in the...
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