Calf Rearing Workshop

The Veterinary Centre is now offering on farm calf rearing workshops. Calves are an essential ingredient on any dairy farm - a well grown calf sets up your farming future, while a poor calf can limit your potential. Our work shops will educate your calf rearing team, as well as creating a tailored plan for your farm that will maximise calf growth while minimising the risks of disease.

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Work shops will include:

Calf pick up

• Calf trailers + hygiene

• Navel disinfection

• Pick up timing

Colostrum

• Why is it important?

• Tubing calves (demonstration + practice)

Feeding regimes

• Milk – how much and how often?

• Meal feeding – why and how much?

•  Farm plan – putting the theory into practice

The sick calf

• Diagnosis – signs + thermometer use

• Treatment – what drugs to use

• Scours – which bug + electrolyte plans

• Human health – zoonoses

• Isolation + Disinfection (stopping the spread)

• When to call the vet

The Calf Rearing Shed

• Bedding/water

• Drafts and air flow

• Cleaning procedures

Get in touch with one of our clinics to book a space for your Calf Rearing Workshop. We are aiming to run the work shops as the earliest cows calve, to enable teaching of the practical components (such as tube feeding, naval disinfection and bug sampling). 

 

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