Cow stress, your reality at the farm level

Research in the area of cow stress can be challenging…often during the process, only one or two stressors are studied, enabling cleaner statistics. Yet this isn’t the on-farm reality. Easily in farm situations, there can be several stressors that compound,  making a bad situation much worse. We have all seen it. An example: A first-lactation heifer calves and is moved to a…