Labour shortages are influencing management decisions across Irish livestock farms. Vitulix offers a practical way to reduce routine feeding work while providing consistent nutritional support to cattle at grass.

As summer transitions into autumn grazing, livestock producers often face a hidden challenge. While grass may still appear plentiful and green, its nutritional profile changes significantly. Sugar levels decline, fibre content rises, and rumen digestible protein (RDP) increases, creating nutritional imbalances that can affect animal performance. This is where Uniblock’s ‘Autumn Gold’ mineral lick bucket […]

Fly-related diseases such as infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis (pink eye) and summer mastitis are a challenge for herd health in the heat of the summer months  Pink eye is one of the most common eye diseases affecting cattle during the summer months. The condition is highly contagious and often spread by face flies carrying bacteria from […]

As temperatures rise and fly populations increase, there is a familiar challenge: protecting cattle from fly-borne diseases...

Irish farmers are investing more than ever in herd health through vaccination programmes.

Vaccination of dry cows is a proven strategy for protecting newborn calves against common diseases such as rotavirus, coronavirus and E. coli.

Vaccination is one of the most important tools available to sheep farmers for protecting both ewes and newborn lambs against disease.

Efficient feed block supplementation remains one of the biggest nutritional challenges in grazing sheep systems. While mineral and feed supplements are widely used to support flock performance, variation in individual animal intake can make it difficult for producers to ensure nutrients are being delivered consistently across the flock. Recent Australian research investigating sheep behaviour at […]

Late pregnancy and the mating period are two of the most nutritionally demanding stages in sheep production. As ewe performance demands continue to increase, many producers are turning to protected fat supplements for ewes as a nutritional strategy that can safely improve energy supply without negatively affecting rumen function. Nutrition during these key stages has […]

Garlic doesn’t just act as a “health supplement” in cows—it works through the rumen to improve efficiency, health, and overall performance. When delivered consistently via a mineral bucket, these benefits can be realised at herd level.