CAFRE had planned to have an Open Day at the new CAFRE Calf Unit this winter. However, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the decision has been taken to hold a series of online webinars in place of the open day. The webinars covered various aspects of the design and management of the new CAFRE Calf Unit.
The series of three Calf 2020 online webinars will be held on consecutive Thursday evenings starting at 8.00pm on 19th November. Each webinar included video presentations from two peakers followed by a live question session. This series of webinars form part of the CAFRE demonstration farm output from the Interreg funded Dairy-4-Future project.
The online webinar programme is detailed below. If you missed the webinars, you can catch up by clicking on the links below.
| Event | Webinar Recording | Speakers |
| 1 | Calf house design | Martin Mulholland, Senior Dairying Technologist, CAFRE Aaron Brown, PhD Student, AFBI Dr Gillian Scoley, Calf Research Scientist, AFBI Michael Graham, Greenmount Farm Manager, CAFRE |
| 2 | Implementing accelerated calf growth | Dr Leonel Leal, Ruminant Researcher, Trouw Nutrition Dr Alastair Boyle, Dairying Technologist, CAFRE Dr Gillian Scoley, Calf Research Scientist, AFBI Michael Graham, Greenmount Farm Manager, CAFRE |
| 3 | Hygiene, welfare, disease control in calf housing | Aaron Brown, PhD Student, AFBI Stephen Gilkinson, Dairying Technologist, CAFRE Dr Brian McAuley BVSc MRCVS, Veterinary Surgeon at Firmount Veterinary Clinic Michael Graham, Greenmount Farm Manager, CAFRE |