Health & Welfare
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Pin Point High Cell Count to Avoid Penalties
Testing milk samples from dairy cows will help pinpoint the high cell count cows in the herd to avoid milk buyer penalties. Monitoring cell counts is vital to ensure that the numbe
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DEFRA Consultation Deadline Extended
The deadline for the DEFRA consultation on Improvements to Animal Welfare in Transport has been extended to Thursday 25th February, 2021.
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Treatment Page feature added to MobileHerd
Treatment Page feature added to MobileHerd – Download the new version of the app now.
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Vet Focus: Why fertility is the answer to productivity
With the various challenges the industry has been facing in recent years, everyone has been looking at efficiency and cost-cutting in all aspects of their farm businesses. Ian Cure
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UKAS Accreditation of CIS Laboratory
On the 5th and 6th February 2020 the CIS laboratory underwent a successful annual UKAS ISO17025 surveillance visit. Read more..
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Feed Focus: Achieving a successful transition
A successful transition cow system will result in giving the cow the best possible start to what is hopefully a profitable lactation, however significant health and production issu
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Farmer Focus: D & B McMiken, Castle Douglas, Dumfries & Galloway
Long standing CIS customers, the McMiken family from Castle Douglas, were winners of the Scottish Dairy Farm of the Year at AgriScot 2019. The Ernespie pedigree Holstein herd is ru
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Farmer Focus: P M Bradbury, Whitchurch, Shropshire
Second generation dairy farmer Paul Bradbury farms in partnership with his wife, Dee, and son, David, milking 130 Holstein Friesian cows under the Brookroad prefix, which calve all
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Pregnancy Diagnosis in Dairy Herds
With government guidelines related to social distancing it is important to remain focussed on herd health and the timely pregnancy diagnosis (PD) of dairy cows. Read more..
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Farmer Focus: Stephen Bone
5 years ago, Stephen decided to start regular milk testing with the intention of identifying the level of Johne’s in the herd with the long term aim of controlling and eradicatin