What do cows and calves do when nobody’s looking?

Our team led a research project (as part of VetEnt Research) in 2020 and 2021 across eight farms in the North and South Islands to identify how well cows were feeding their calves.

The study involved 30 staff who ran shifts 24 hours a day over a period of two weeks per farm, on scissor lifts in calving paddocks. Want to see the results? Check our findings out via the links below.

Suckling behavior of calves in seasonally calving pasture-based dairy systems, and possible environmental and management factors affecting suckling behaviors

The transfer of passive immunity in calves born at pasture

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