Feeding colostrum is of utmost importance to optimize the passive immune system of neonatal calves, that is mainly established through the transfer of high amounts of IgG. At least, this has been the dogma for decades. Dr. Steele will make participants of the Veerkracht congress look differently at why we…
High fertility is at the core of high milk production on the dairy farm. The dogma was always that all cows lose body condition after calving, and we just need to manage this through an intervention, so they gain that body condition back towards dry off. Dr. Fricke challenges this…
On dairy farms disease incidence is highest in the first 3 weeks of lactation. Despite conflicting evidence, the dogma for last 40 years was that it is the NEFA’s, hyperketonemia, and hypocalcemia that cause these health issues. In his lecture Dr. Baumgard is debunking this dogma and argues that it…
