Chronic stress underlies many health challenges
How to keep your dairy cows chill Successful Farming magazine interviewed Jefo Nutrition’s Chris Gwyn about dairy cow stress and its deadly health challenges. The article covers how to spot stress and outlines management practices and tools to help reduce its effects in your herd. Chris says that cows can usually overcome stress from one…
How long should cows stay in the fresh pen?
Have you found a sweet spot for transitioning cows from a fresh diet to a lactating diet? To keep post-calving stress at a minimum, many producers provide a separate pen for fresh cows, giving this group more individualized attention, comfortable space and a specific fresh-cow diet. But how much time in the pen is ideal?…
