Hazell Mullins: It's not just the calves that grow up - how calf-rearing has changed

Farm vet and Carrigaline dairy farmer Hazell Mullins had an interesting week as Philip Boucher Hayes came to visit the farm to discuss how calf rearing on the farm has evolved over the last two decades.

Hazell's calves with their jackets on

We are halfway through calving already on the farm; it is wild how quickly it passes after such a build-up. I had an interesting week as Philip Boucher Hayes came to visit the farm to discuss how calf-rearing on the farm has evolved over the past 20 or so years. 

It was an interesting topic as I had never really sat down and really reflected about how things have changed over the past 15 to 20 years. Even in the last 11 years since I graduated, calf health has only gone from strength to strength.