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Welcome to the #CALFMATTERS Resource Shed.
We are delighted to share a range of educational and practical information about all things calf health related.

BOVALTO - A little boost makes a big difference

The BOVALTO range has been developed to provide specific, individual advantages to ensure broad protection against BRD

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Fencovis

Advancing protection against calf scour

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Feeding Colostrum

Calves are born without any antibodies to fight disease in the first few weeks of life. The only way they can get these antibodies is through colostrum.

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Monitoring Colostrum Quality

How to monitor colostrum quality, ensuring cleanliness and antibody availability.

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Preserving Colostrum

How to preserve and store colostrum to ensure availability of good quality colostrum in times of short supply.

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Harvesting Colostrum

Because calves are born without any antibodies, their only source is colostrum. When ‘snatch calving’ is practiced, and colostrum feeding taken over, harvesting colostrum correctly is the first step in ensuring good passive transfer of immunity.

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Fencovis - Key Features

Helping end the nightmare of calf scour for a fairytale start

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Critical-care pointers key to calf health

One Somerset-based producer shared how a ‘total quality management’ approach has significantly reduced calf mortality rate on his 800-cow unit with delegates at this year’s National Youngstock Conference.

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Calf scours - know your enemy

Is scouring cause for concern on your unit? We look at some key areas where easy wins can be made to help reduce the incidence of diarrhoea in calves.

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Calfmatters Kaizen Brochure - #From10Days to Weaning

The Calfmatters guide to continuous improvement in your calf health and performance from 10 days to weaning

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Calfmatters Farmer Survey 2020: Whitepaper

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Cow Management Sept 2020 - Calfmatters Survey Results

Key messages on the importance of colostrum management, vaccination against pneumonia, and reducing antibiotic use are hitting home, according to the latest #Calfmatters survey results.

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Calfmatters Kaizen Brochure - Early Life

The Calfmatters Guide to Continuous Improvement in your Early-Life Calf Health Management

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Calfmatters survey 2019 – Building a resilient calf whitepaper

This is the third year that the #Calfmatters survey has been run by Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, with over 400 farmers responding this year. This gives us an up to date snap shot of calf diseases such as bovine respiratory disease (BRD) and calf scour, plus an insight into the management practices currently being used on farm to reduce the impacts of these costly diseases.

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Bovalto Respi Intranasal

Easy and Effective as Predicted

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Healthy calf rearing system checklist AHDB

This checklist aims to provide a structured approach to assess a calf rearing system.

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Calf Health Guide UK

This guide provides practical tips on how to best approach calf health and management, starting with colostrum feeding, which is an essential step in the management of any calf, then going through other important aspects of calf husbandry.

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Calf Health Guide IRELAND

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Metacam

Disbudding Leaflet

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#Calfmatters calf health & welfare blueprint

Tips and tricks to help calf rearing go from good to great.

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#Update their immune system

Bovine Respiratory disease is a relentless hacker.

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#Calfmatters calf pneumonia control article

Calf pneumonia is a cause of major economic loss for the cattle industry both in the UK and Ireland. In this #CALFMATTERS calf pneumonia control article, we discuss the causes of calf pneumonia, treatment should you be faced with an outbreak, prevention measures against the common viral and vaccination top tips.

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