Take advantage of advances in herd health investigation

In 2010, I embarked on a two-year course at UCD, the Certificate in Dairy Herd Health course.

This opened my eyes to a whole new world of investigation and monitoring in all the different areas of herd health.

An investigation starts when a farmer realises that he or she has a major problem with something like cell count, too many empty cows, or a sudden rush of positive BVD samples.