Calf husbandry

Calf husbandry

Calf husbandry Improving calf care reduces antimicrobial use, lowers mortality rate, improves dairy business profitability and helps maintain social licence. There are two elements to Dairy Up’s P2e Calf Husbandry project: automated calf rearing and rearing Holstein...
Congratulations Sarah

Congratulations Sarah

Congratulations Sarah Congratulations to Dr Sarah Legge on her recent PhD graduation. The research Sarah did for her thesis “The lasting impact of calf performance” made a major contribution to Dairy UP’s P2e Calf Husbandry project.  Sarah used data from automatic...
Recent Publications

Recent Publications

Recent Publications There are opportunities to use bulk tank milk to monitor udder health and herd nutritional status. Members of the P2 team have had an editorial published in the Australian Veterinary Journal Volume 102, Issue 1-2. They discuss existing and...
P2 Infectious diseases

P2 Infectious diseases

P2 Infectious diseases It’s been a busy few months for Dairy UP’s P2f team who have now completed sample collection from farms. More than 2000 samples have been collected from 72 farms. Researchers are now processing and sequencing the samples at EMAI and UTS. Some...