Future Beef Webinar - Calving and Post-Calving Management
23 January 2025 23 January 2025Venue Online
The Future Beef team are hosting a series of webinars this January. The webinars will focus on preparation for calving, covering pre-calving and calving and post-calving management.
Join us on Thursday, 23 January at 8pm for a Future Beef Webinar which will focus on Calving and Post-Calving Management.
The webinar will be chaired by James Mullane, Future Beef Programme Advisor and will feature Dr John Donlon, Beef Herd Health Research Officer, Teagasc; Dr Doreen Corridan, CEO of the National Cattle Breeding Centre (NCBC); and Michael Biggins, Future Beef Farmer.
This webinar will focus on calving the suckler cow and post calving management of the suckler cow and calf, including if and when to intervene and how to manage the newborn calf.
A key target in a profitable suckling enterprise is achieving a calf per cow per year and calving the herd compactly each year. The webinar will focus on:
- Calving the suckler cow: Knowing when and if to intervene during calving, what the signs of a difficult calving are, what do you need to have in the calving shed? If you have a hard calving – how do you treat the cow afterwards
- Calf care: How can I reduce illness once my calf is born- scour, navel ill etc. If my calf does get sick – what can I do to minimise the effects - correct rehydration of using the correct products etc.
- Getting the cow back in calf: The webinar will look at ways achieve a 365 day calving interval, through post calving nutrition, decisions around breeding and fertility and is synchronisation an option – Michael Biggins experience
Find out more about the series here
More information on the Future Beef Programme can be found here