You can’t turn off stress

Cows can experience more than 30 different stress factors. However, the industry often focuses on only a small handful, and even then we tend to address them individually. 

Learn more about these stressors and how they interact, and relieve some of the stress of keeping your cows healthy and productive.

Heat stress affects dry cows and lactating cows, and it can influence the productivity of your cows’ future calves. 

Get insights for reducing heat stress and solutions for helping your heat-stressed cows. 

Nutritional stress is the result of anything that negatively impacts DMI. This can be physiological, such as how a cow’s body literally reacts to a change in diet. It can be perceptual — the cow simply views a diet change as different and may stop eating. Or behavioral, such as competition for bunk space. Anything that negatively influences intake has a trickle-down effect on rumen health, energy balance, production and health. 

Learn more about nutritional stress and find solutions to help you minimize it.

When working with cows, understanding the proper ways to handle those animals is critical. The welfare of farmers and their employees, and cow well-being, depend on it. Negative behavior toward cows can increase their stress levels. As a result, animals and dairies can suffer consequences. 

Learn more about how you can improve animal handling, minimize cow stress and help you and your employees maximize cow welfare and comfort.