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CAFRE Calf 2020 – Sustainable Calf Rearing Webinar 3 – Health and Welfare

03 Dec 2020

Online - WebEx

Thursday 3rd December, 8.00pm – 9.00pm.

CAFRE are hosting a series of three webinars on Sustainable Calf Rearing. You are invited to the final webinar on Thursday 3rd December from 8.00pm – 9.00pm. Event 3 will focus on hygiene in commercial farm calf rearing facilities – findings from the Optihouse project and vaccination protocols, colostrum hygiene and disease management in the CAFRE calf house.

Did you miss this event? You can catch up here

Chair

Martin Mulholland, Senior Dairying Technologist, CAFRE


Panel:


Aaron Brown, PhD student, AFBI Hillsborough involved in the OptiHouse project will make a presentation on hygiene management on local commercial dairy farms involved in the OptiHouse project.


Stephen Gilkinson, Dairying Technologist, CAFRE will make a presentation on vaccination protocols, colostrum hygiene and disease management in the CAFRE calf rearing facilities.



The Q & A panel discussion after the presentation will also include


Dr Cahir McAuley, Firmount Veterinary Clinic




Michael Graham, Farms Manager at Greenmount Campus CAFRE.




Please feel free to put questions to any of our panellists during the meeting or send them in advance to Alastair.Boyle@daera-ni.gov.uk.

The webinar is open to everyone.
How to join?

URL – https://nigov.webex.com/nigov/onstage/g.php?d=1379239076&t=a&EA=martin.mulholland%40daera-ni.gov.uk&ET=SDJTSwAAAARXaxz_3IbZIvnH0HUVBFr6909FDwNNFy03y2Imxkup3g2&ETR=SDJTSwAAAAQX8LgsSKdBX3PgCvCtC6_Lvn1RshXueZgVHSMt7O6WAg2&RT=MiMyMQ==&p

Please note: You can join the event from 7.45pm, it will start promptly at 8.00pm. It is advisable to download the WebEx application in advance.

From your laptop or PC

It is advisable to download the WebEx application in advance.

** You will need to replace the prepopulated joining details with your own name and email address.

The Event Password is Calf2020

From your mobile phone or tablet

– Please download the WebEx meetings app from your app store. Guidance can be found here:

https://help.webex.com/en-us/njd6v2l/Install-the-Cisco-Webex-Meetings-Mobile-App

Enter the meeting number and password when prompted.

Event number (access code): 137 923 9076

Event password: Calf2020

You can also join via your mobile or landline by dialling: 0-20-7660-8149 (UK Toll) and enter the meeting information above