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We’re over the hump of the spring. Well, at least that’s what I’m telling myself this week anyway and the arrival of glorious sunshine last Thursday helped bolster my positivity. The mad rush of ...

The animal activist organisation responsible for creating a controversial online map of Australian farms has released vision from inside a farm owned by the well-known Meredith Dairy, in south-west ...

Disbudding entails destroying calves horn buds, and in dairy farming is most often done with a hot-iron. Disbudding is routinely carried out because hornless cattle are considered to be safer for ...

Bouncing baby goats! There’s no more joyful sight on the spring homestead. We stand around watching them for hours. They are full of vitality and energy, the best advertisement possible for drinking ...

Yalca, Vic, farmer Steven Dalitz, who started disbudding calves using sedation and long-term pain relief two years ago, says he would now never do it any other way.

Stress-free disbudding by a vet offers enhanced calf welfare, improved growth rates and frees up farm staff, says vet Philip Wilkinson of Paragon Veterinary Group. The increasing challenge of finding ...

Around 300 000 calves born yearly in Finland and most of them are disbudded (ie their hornbuds are destroyed) before 4 weeks of age using hot cauterization. Majority of Finnish producers do call ...