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Diseases | Calf Health and Welfare | Disease Prevention

Keeping TBC and Thermo Low

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Parasitology

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Maximising Benefits: IBR Control 

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Target Weights 

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Milk Recording 

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Cell Check 

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Keeping TBC and Thermo Low

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Transition Cow Management and Health 

Paper - Transition cow management and health in Irish dairy herds - Results from an on-line survey (PDF) 

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Dry - Off Management for Reduction of SCC 

Paper - Cow and management factors associated with SCC in the following lactation (PDF)

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Dry Cow Treatment amd Procedure

Paper - Intramammary infections – prevalence and causes at dry-off and calving (PDF)

Paper - Optimising infection detection in dairy herds conducting selective dry cow therapy (PDF)

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Milk Residues and Microbial Quality 

Paper - Trichloromethane chlorate and microbial status of farm bulk milk (PDF)

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What are the Neccessary Elements of an Effective Wash Routine

Paper - Evaluation of how chlorine-free cleaning protocols for milking equipment are applied on farms

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Cow - Calf Contact in Ireland

Paper - Cow calf contact (PDF) 

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Papers 

• Pre-calving feeding impacts on calf health – latest findings (PDF)
• Calf diarrhoea – prevention and the role of microbes (PDF)
• Prevalence of calf respiratory disease on Irish dairy farms using two diagnostic techniques (PDF)
• New research on atresia (waterbelly) in calves reveals a genetic link (PDF)
• Attitudes of farmers towards pain in pasture-based dairy cows (PDF)
• Hoof lesions in lame pasture-based dairy cows (PDF)

Calf Health and Welfare 

Healthy Calves 

Paper - Impact of housing environment on calf respiratory disease (PDF)

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Keeping Calves Healthy 

Paper - Impact of housing environment on calf respiratory disease (PDF)

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Calf Behaviour 

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Calf Welfare

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Calf Feeding 

Paper - Colostrum - A food for calves and humans (PDF)

Paper - Importance of feeding high quality milk to calves (PDF)

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Housing and Calf Pneumonia

Paper - Intranasal vaccination for pneumonia viruses in calves (PDF)

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Calf Welfare During Transport 

Paper - Measuring dairy calf welfare during long-distance road ferry transportation (PDF)

Paper - Feeding strategies to improve dairy calf welfare during long-distance road ferry transportation (PDF)

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Congenital Defects in Calves

Paper - A new App to record congenital defects in dairy and beef calves (PDF)

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Microbiomes, Sustainable & Health 

Paper - HoloRuminant – Understanding the rumen microbial colonisation of calves and its impact on performance (PDF)

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Diseases

Coccidiosis

Paper - Coccidiosis – What’s happening on Irish dairy farms (PDF)

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Zoonotic Diseases

Paper - Biosecurity in the dairy herd – basic principles (PDF)

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The Why and How of Johne's Control

Paper - Implementing biosecurity practices to control Johne’s disease also reduces calf mortality on IJCP farms (PDF)

Paper - New technique to monitor Johne’s disease on infected farms (PDF) 

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Disease Prevention 

BioSecurity 

Paper - Dairy herd biosecurity – Assessment and intervention (PDF)

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Badger Activity on the Farm

Paper - Taking action to reduce the risk of a TB breakdown in dairy herds (PDF)

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Antibiotic Use

Paper - Antimicrobial use in Irish dairy herds - A comparison of three recording methods (PDF)

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