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Is selective dry cow therapy right for me?

Six considerations to determine if selective dry cow therapy is right for your herd and which cows to treat.
September 30, 2022
Brittany Core and Matt Gough

Six considerations to determine if selective dry cow therapy is right for your herd and which cows to treat. 


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Non-nutritional management of controlled energy dry cow diets: Another piece to a very complex puzzle

July 20, 2022
Casey Havekes
The weeks leading up to calving and the weeks following calving can be extremely challenging for dairy cows. One of the most obvious stressors during this time is the shift from gestation to lactation and the sudden and dramatic nutrient demand for milk production that accompanies this shift.
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5 tips for a successful dry period

June 13, 2022
Casey Havekes and Sydney Moore
The dry period is essential for dairy cows to allow for regeneration of milk-secreting tissue and prepare the udder for optimal success in the next lactation.
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Building with transition cows in mind

September 14, 2020
Jacques Charpentier and Danielle Kiezebrink

It is assumed that the lactating group is the most important stage of production for optimal herd performance and profitability. On the contrary, dry cows and transition cows should be, in fact, the focal point of the dairy operation.


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All aspects of a negative DCAD diet must be consistent

February 7, 2020
Tim Brown
Often, when I visit a farm to troubleshoot an incident of poor transition cow performance, I hear the comment, “Things had been going so well until now. What might have changed with my anionic supplement?”
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Gauging success in transition programs

November 19, 2012
Gerald Mechor
Wouldn’t it be nice to have that gauge to determine how successful our transition cow program is at present? If we wait to see measurable “wreck” clinical outcomes such as milk fever, retained placenta, metritis, ketosis and displacements of the abomasums, we are late to the realization of a transition program going astray.
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