SD FNC Low Stress Calving - Transition Cow Workshop June 2025

The Transition Cow on-farm workshop is a 2 hour, on-farm, group discussion delivered by Dr Carl Hockey from RuralVet, a Dairy Australia Repro Right accredited veterinarian.

The session focuses on how transition cow feed management can:

• Adapt fresh cows rumens to high energy feeds;
• Avoid milk fever and other health problems around calving related to hypocalcaemia;
• Maintaining high feed intakes post calving and control body condition loss in early lactation.

Implementing an integrated approach to transition nutrition and fresh cow management results in:

• Higher in-calf rates;
• Better use of labour;
• Lower culling and death rates;
• More milk (up to 300+litres / cow).