Livestock Matters
farm animal veterinary consultancy
Dairy Services
Livestock Matters has a wealth of experience in helping farmers to manage dairy herds: mastitis, poor fertility and lameness can be a worry. Advice is also available on the more general problems of nutrition and herd health.
Nutrition
Nutrition affects many areas of dairy performance including
- Milk yield
- Milk composition
- Metabolic disease (milk fever, staggers, fatty liver, ketosis etc)
- Fertility
- Lameness
- Infectious disease
Optimising nutrition on your farm is critical to overall farm profitability. The Livestock Matters nutrition service includes
- Analysis of rations and forage
- Body Condition Scoring
- Assessment of feeding practices
- Metabolic profiling
- Analysis of milk recording data
- Troubleshooting specific problems such as milk fever, displaced abomasum, fatty liver and ruminal acidosis
- Collaboration with other farm advisers
Mastitis
Natalie has in-depth experience of mastitis investigation read more...
Fertility
Most dairies use some form of pregnancy diagnosis read more...
Lameness
Dairy cow lameness is a major cost in terms of productivity and welfare. read more...
Herd Health Planning
It is extremely important for dairy farmers to identify areas in which health problems are affecting profitability. read more...