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The balancing act between professional success and personal fulfillment can be an overwhelming task. Like a child who has just entered the gates of the county fair, there are different draws for time, attention and resources.
You work hard to raise heifers so they can provide the next generation of productive cows in your milking herd. All that time and money invested in raising these girls pays off if she stays past her first lactation.
Digestive and metabolic upsets are just some of the challenges in pre-weaned calf rearing. Rumen drinking is a condition that occurs when milk is ingested into the rumen in large quantities.
If you are active in social media, you have either seen or participated in the challenges to announce the blessings in your life or the things for which you are thankful. These can pop up at any time, but we typically see more of them in the days leading up to Thanksgiving.
In dairy genetics and genomics … Lead: Dr. Filippo Miglior, University of Guelph and Canadian Dairy Network
Collaborators: D. Kelton, F. Schenkel, University of Guelph; D. Weary, University of British Columbia; and I. Rumbles, CanWest DHI
Sometimes I wish I didn’t have real-life examples of how I make mistakes, but my mishaps make good fodder for this column. Last harvest, I was the combine driver who backed into the fuel truck while I was unloading my auger for cleanout to move to the next field.
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