Ever wish you could read a shed like a story? We walk through CowSignals® with vet consultant Owen Atkinson and coach-trainer Jo Speed, showing how behaviour becomes your best advisory tool. From the CowSignals® Diamond (feed, water, light, air, rest, and space) to the way cows actually see the world, we translate subtle cues into practical changes that raise performance and lower stress. We dig into stress-free stockmanship and the Hemsworth cycle, where human tension fuels animal tension an...
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Ever wish you could read a shed like a story? We walk through CowSignals® with vet consultant Owen Atkinson and coach-trainer Jo Speed, showing how behaviour becomes your best advisory tool. From the CowSignals® Diamond (feed, water, light, air, rest, and space) to the way cows actually see the world, we translate subtle cues into practical changes that raise performance and lower stress. We dig into stress-free stockmanship and the Hemsworth cycle, where human tension fuels animal tension an...
The Transition Period: Setting Cows Up for Success
ChewintheCud Podcast
1 hour 8 minutes
3 months ago
The Transition Period: Setting Cows Up for Success
The transition period is the highest-risk window in a dairy cow's life, with far-reaching consequences for health, productivity, and farm profitability. In this comprehensive episode, we speak with Donald Lawson, head of the ruminant team at Premier Nutrition, who shares invaluable insights from his extensive experience managing transition cow nutrition. Donald reveals how approximately 80% of health problems in dairy cows originate during the six-week window around calving, and how getting ...
ChewintheCud Podcast
Ever wish you could read a shed like a story? We walk through CowSignals® with vet consultant Owen Atkinson and coach-trainer Jo Speed, showing how behaviour becomes your best advisory tool. From the CowSignals® Diamond (feed, water, light, air, rest, and space) to the way cows actually see the world, we translate subtle cues into practical changes that raise performance and lower stress. We dig into stress-free stockmanship and the Hemsworth cycle, where human tension fuels animal tension an...
