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...
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...
This course will look at the major risk factors for newborn lambs.
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...
This is a 1- day training course with a certificate awarded following completion.
Focusing on cattle handling you'll learn to develop safer, more efficient and more profitable systems when working with your livestock. You'll spend some time indoors discussing the...
Cows at Pensarnau farm are housed for most of...
