Dairy cows have complex nutritional needs and feeding accounts for one of the biggest costs of production. Matching nutrition to requirements at each stage of the production cycle is critical and can be challenging to meet. This module looks at...
Key areas you wish to focus on as a demonstration farmer?
To optimise liveweight gain from forage
To consider which approaches are most effective for rectifying trace element shortfalls in our soils...
In this course you will learn about ewe nutrition during pregnancy and the metabolic diseases they are susceptible to during this time.
In this course we will look at:
Existing building-related issues on livestock management, health, and performance, assessment of existing buildings in an objective manner, consideration of existing building against design guides and prioritising potential improvements based on available time and money.
This course aims to help you understand the rational for introducing the dynamic and interactive Animal Health Improvement Cycle (AHIC) as means for practicing the ‘prevention is better than cure’ mantra as part of animal health management. The idea...
Main Objectives
"Being a Farming Connect...
Johne's disease or paratuberculosis is greatly under-diagnosed in many UK sheep flocks.
The disease is characterised by emaciation but not, as in cattle, chronic severe diarrhoea. Disease is encountered in all sheep husbandry systems, including extensively managed flocks.
In many...
