Correct management in the transition period, including meeting greater needs for trace minerals, underpins milk yields, fertility and profitability in the subsequent lactation.
Mortality rates due to calf diarrhoea can be high (greater than or equal to 50 per cent) 1, especially in large outbreaks, usually due to excessive fluid loss and/or septicaemia due to bacteria from the gastrointestinal tract getting into the bloodstream.
How Ecosyl has increased the yield of a dairy farm in North Wales
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