If a newborn calf fails to receive the right quantity and quality of colostrum quickly enough after birth it is four times more likely to die and twice as likely to succumb to infection. Feeding ...
Trials are comparing two lamb blood tests in a bid to reduce antibiotics use on farms through optimising ewe nutrition and health. A series of farm studies has compared refractometer tests and zinc ...
Two colostrum samples from the same farm may look identical, but the immunoglobulin concentration can vary significantly. Hence, it is not necessarily true that the thicker the colostrum, the better, ...