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Healthy brain and eye development in children. Decreased risk of cardiovascular disease. Improved cognitive function. What if consumers could receive these benefits from a piece of cheese or the milk poured on their cereal?
In our harsh Canadian climate, cold weather can take its toll on everyone, including calves. Whether your calves are inside or outside, cold weather is very stressful for them. Here are some calf management tips for cold weather.
It is now common to find butyrate in commercial milk replacers and solid feeds for calves. However, the impact it has on the calf varies depending on the delivery method and the source of dietary butyrate being used.
In Canadian dairy herds, the average stillbirth rate is 8 percent, but this varies between 0 and 17 percent across herds; the best 25 percent of these herds could be used as home-grown producer benchmarks for the industry.
Breezy Holsteins’ new freestall barn allowed Roger and Karen Haag to bring two herds together under one roof and use the vacated tiestall barn for newborns and weaned calves. They also constructed a small barn with automatic feeders for pre-weaned calves.
In taking over the farm his parents started when they moved from Switzerland in 1990, Roger Haag and his wife, Karen, consolidated two separate farms and looked to automation to reduce labour needs.
After analyzing corn, spring wheat, barley and triticale samples from across Canada as part of the 2016 Alltech Canada harvest analysis, the results indicated a high risk for the presence of mycotoxins in total mixed rations (TMR), distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) and silage.
Over the past several weeks, I’ve been talking with a co-worker about setting goals. She was looking for a set of goals to challenge her in work and in life.
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