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Brix refractometer can be used to measure colsotrum quality on farm.
Dairy farmer Pat Hennessy is in the middle of calving at Coarsetown Dairies, Athy. The newborn calves are handfed for the first 24 hours to help teach them how to suckle and then separated into pens where they are bucket fed. Junior cert student, Ben Purcell is on midterm and is helping out with feeding the newborn calves and Pat is showing Ben how to do this.