Youngstock Nutrition and Management – Part 5: Pre-weaning nutrition – concentrate feeding & weaning
This course is tailored towards veterinary surgeons and dairy farm advisors who wish to develop their understanding of dairy youngstock nutrition from birth through to first calving. The aim of the course is to improve competence in basic and intermediate dairy youngstock nutrition and feeding management techniques that will facilitate delivery of consultancy services to dairy clients.
Course Components
This module examines the non-milk feeding components of pre-weaning feeding, including water, starter and forage provision, and the weaning process. It aims to give participants confidence with providing advice beyond milk feeding and how to avoid the common pitfalls of the weaning process.
Course Tutors
Richard Cooper, RCVS Specialist in Cattle Health and Production, Map of Ag
Richard Cooper qualified as a vet from Bristol in 2002, subsequently working in Devon and New Zealand. He undertook a farm animal residency at the University of Bristol in 2008, subsequently gaining his RCVS Diploma in Cattle Health and Production and RCVS Registered Specialist status.
Richard provides nutritional consultancy on behalf of Map of Ag to dairy and beef farmers, and veterinary consultancy to processors and retailers in the agrifood supply chain. He completed a master’s degree in Public Health and Epidemiology in 2017, which consolidated his love of using data to help inform farm decision making.
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