Synopsis
This interactive day will focus on dairy-beef calves and will enable the delegates to proactively engage with calf-rearers on the key areas of calf management including: health and disease, buildings and environmental management, milk feeding and weaning management as well as performance monitoring and benchmarking. The session will also cover how to investigate disease issues in these systems.
About the Speaker
Tim Potter
Tim graduated from the RVC and then went onto to complete a farm animal residency and a PhD focussing on the management of calf pneumonia. After completion of his PhD he left the RVC for a job in practice and has spent the last 15 years working with calf rearers raising dairy-beef calves across the UK: setting up new calf units, providing proactive health advice and data monitoring services and troubleshooting health and production. In the last 6 months he has taken a technical role in industry where he still continues to work with vets and farmers advising on best practice for calf rearing and helping investigate health issues on farm.
