What is one to do with all that milk? One solution that not only uses up that extra dairy and offers external benefits? Raise a calf! You may choose to bottle feed a calf for several reasons.

After colostrum, consistency and quality in milk feeding are key to steady, lean growth. Providing a balanced, high-quality milk replacer or pasteurized whole milk at consistent volumes and ...

A new €1m ‘state-of-the-art’ centre that will apply cutting-edge research to benefit and improve the health and rearing of dairy calves has been opened at University College Dublin (UCD) Lyons Farm.

OAD feeding can significantly help this process of weaning and it can also help considerably with the workload at this time ...

But there's a lot more to weighing up the options than the bare cost comparison, explains Teagasc Ruminant Nutrition Specialist Aisling Claffey. But there's a lot more to weighing up the options ...