Udder Hygiene Tips That Won’t Stress Your Cow
One method to improve udder hygiene is removing udder hair, which can trap manure and debris and harbor bacteria that increase the risk of infection and elevated somatic cell counts.
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Proteger el ganado lechero: Manejo Seguro de Agujas y Productos Veterinarios Inyectables
Maneja las inyecciones para animales con cuidado para evitar infecciones, lesiones y que el medicamento no funcione. Herramientas limpias y pasos inteligentes hacen una gran diferencia.
Protecting Dairy Cattle: Safe Handling of Needles and Injectable Veterinary Products
Handle animal injections safely to prevent infection, injury, and medicine failure. Clean tools and smart steps make a big difference.
Keeping Dairy Farm Workers Safe During Extreme Heat
Working on dairy farms during hot weather presents unique challenges. Heat exposure kills more people annually than floods, tornadoes, lightning, and hurricanes combined.
Los terneros también sufren estrés: lo que los productores lecheros necesitan saber
Al igual que nosotros, los terneros pueden experimentar estrés por diversos factores en sus primeras etapas de vida.
Calves Get Stressed Too: What Dairy Farmers Need to Know
Understanding stressors in calves is key for dairy farmers to keep their calves healthy and growing strong.
Balancing Ventilation Costs and Milk Production Losses on Wisconsin Dairy Farms
Effective ventilation management reduces the impacts of heat stress on milk production.
Lameness Risk Landscape
Not only does lameness affect a cow’s health and well-being, but it’s also costly to the farm’s bottom line. Lameness cases in the dairy herd impact reproduction, milk production, herd health, and longevity.
A las vacas no les gustan las fiestas sorpresa
Si bien una fiesta sorpresa puede ser divertida para los humanos, la imprevisibilidad puede interponerse en el camino de la bajada de la leche y el rendimiento general del ordeño.
Mooving Cows: Aprender las habilidades básicas del manejo de la vaca para estar seguro y mantener las vacas en calma
Cuando las vacas son manejadas apropiadamente, sus miedos y niveles de estrés se mantienen al mínimo. Las vacas en calma producen más leche y se comportan de manera más predecible, reduciendo los riesgos de lesiones a ellas mismas o a los humanos que cuidan de ellas.
🎧 LISTEN: Engaging Positive Animal Behavior
[Listen to this 3-minute podcast] Research has shown cows love using brushes. A study found that lactating cows were willing to push heavy gates to get access to an automatic rotating brush, indicating that having a brush was important to them.
Healthy Cows: Management Tips for Transition Times
Fresh cow diseases such as ketosis, milk fever, displaced abomasum, retained placenta, metritis, and mastitis have a huge impact on the overall health of an animal. In addition to the health of the animal there are other factors including lost milk production, longer days to cycle and get pregnant, plus the cost to treat these fresh cow diseases.
