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Breeding
22 August 2025
The importance of colostrum intake by the calf and best practice guidelines for after care
30 April 2019
AHDB is now recruiting an additional person to work with Scottish dairy farmers, after the Scottish Dairy Hub officially moved to NFUS in February.
22 August 2025
Calving difficulty causes and management techniques to overcome these issues
29 September 2025
Learn how to give your bull an essential MOT with this handy leaflet. Remember the five Ts: Toes, testicles, tone, treat, test.
25 October 2023
Review and develop your herds breeding plan.
15 October 2025
Being familiar with the three stages of calving will enable you to provide the optimum conditions for the cow to calf
22 August 2025
Feeding to optimise body condition during pregnancy and the production cycle is closely related to calving ease and the health of the cow and calf
21 August 2025
Things to consider before breeding to minimise calving difficulties
22 August 2025
Welcome to the minimising calving difficulties series. The series covers all stages in the production cycle, from before breeding to cow care after calving. Scroll to see how you can achieve more successful calvings.
1 March 2019
Internationally recognised dairy farmers Lloyd and Daphne Holterman will be visiting the UK in March for a series of meetings where they will outline the ‘five non-negotiables of managing the modern dairy cow’.
4 April 2019
Buying in livestock is risky and is the most likely way of introducing a new disease onto your farm. The cost of a disease outbreak can be huge with long lasting effects. There are many potential diseases of concern as this checklist shows.
6 March 2019
Autumn block calving herds are shown to have potential cost savings of between 1 and 4ppl over all-year-round herds.