Welfare

Managing and treating mastitis in your herd

10 July 2020

Managing and treating mastitis in your herd

Strategic Dairy Farm: Mastitis expert Dr James Breen joins Hillhead of Covington's Willie Baillie for a review of their last nine months activities

Lameness in sheep - treatment and diagnosis

30 January 2025

Lameness in sheep - treatment and diagnosis

There are quite a few different treatments and protocols for treating lame sheep. If you haven’t already, talk to your vet about creating a plan of action to devise the most appropriate treatments tailored for your flock’s disease problems and circumstances

Air quality in pig buildings

30 March 2022

Air quality in pig buildings

Guidance on providing good air quality in pig buildings and information about the major pollutants.

Killing-out percentage

23 July 2020

Killing-out percentage

Guidance on how to improve the killing-out percentage of your finished pigs

Sheep weaning this year for profit next year

16 June 2020

Sheep weaning this year for profit next year

Table Talk video

Small piglet management

23 December 2020

Small piglet management

Guidance on how to manage small piglets

Weaning and small pig management

13 August 2020

Weaning and small pig management

Guidance on weaning, including creep feeding and small pig management

Colostrum management for pigs

24 June 2021

Colostrum management for pigs

Information about the importance of colostrum for piglets

Monitoring farrowing and piglet behaviour

17 September 2020

Monitoring farrowing and piglet behaviour

Guidance on monitoring farrowing and piglet behaviour

Piglet fostering

23 December 2020

Piglet fostering

Guidance on indoor piglet management

Creep training

17 September 2020

Creep training

Creep areas provide the right environment for piglets and training them to use this area will give them a good start in life.

Hoof care tool kit

22 May 2026

Hoof care tool kit

Find out more about the cattle foot care tool kit.

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