Disbudding is a common management procedure across cattle farms in the UK, with benefits for both human and animal welfare. Removal of the horn bud is a stressful event for a calf, but with correctly ...

Disbudding entails destroying calves horn buds, and in dairy farming is most often done with a hot-iron. Disbudding is routinely carried out because hornless cattle are considered to be safer for ...

We’re over the hump of the spring. Well, at least that’s what I’m telling myself this week anyway and the arrival of glorious sunshine last Thursday helped bolster my positivity. The mad rush of ...

Yalca, Vic, farmer Steven Dalitz, who started disbudding calves using sedation and long-term pain relief two years ago, says he would now never do it any other way.

IT’S FINALLY SUMMER, with perfect weather, sunny skies, vacation days galore and everyone’s garden is coming into full brilliance. Numerous people this week have asked me how I produce such large, ...

Bouncing baby goats! There’s no more joyful sight on the spring homestead. We stand around watching them for hours. They are full of vitality and energy, the best advertisement possible for drinking ...

Around 300 000 calves born yearly in Finland and most of them are disbudded (ie their hornbuds are destroyed) before 4 weeks of age using hot cauterization. Majority of Finnish producers do call ...