NB2: Assessing practical interventions to reduce calf wastage and herd mortality in northern systems
| Project start date: | 13 August 2021 |
| Project end date: | 15 December 2026 |
| Publication date: | 08 June 2022 |
| Project status: | In progress |
| Livestock species: | Grass-fed Cattle |
| Relevant regions: | Northern Australia |
Summary
Poor nutrition and environmental stress during calving have been identified as major causes of calving difficulty and calf mortality. This proposal aims to assess the impact of nutritional interventions and environmental stress around calving on cow and calf mortality, and to validate the use of relevant on-farm diagnostic tools to objectively measure baseline performance against that achieved with the interventions.
