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• The accuracy of the MooMonitor in heat detection

  Visited Dairymaster in County Kerry to see heat detection in cows using MooMonitor®. I travelled from County Limerick down to meet staff at Dairymaster to discuss research work conducted by ourselves for Dairymaster. Experimental work revealed that the... Posted Mar 03 2011, 12:01 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: heat detection, AI, cow, MooMonitor [Edit Tags]

• Synchronisation programmes waste of time and money if cows are not fit.

  Visited a client with a herd of Limousin cows in County Clare. Body condition score of the cows was very poor. Silage quality presented with very low dry matters as the cows were scouring. I indicated to him that programming these cows was a waste of... Posted Feb 10 2011, 10:49 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: AI, silage, cow, Limosuin herd, Hormones, bcs poor [Edit Tags]

• 100% pregnancy rate to AI in a group of 11 heifers.

  Visited a farm in county Waterford to-day where 11 heifers were AI’d to natural heats and all 11 heifers held to first AI. This is a remarkable result. The farmer wanted them scanned for pregnancy because he was convinced some of them were not in calf... Posted Jan 24 2011, 01:24 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: AI, heifers, scanned, natural heat [Edit Tags]

• Records differ

  On a call this morning with a dairy herd in County Limerick. The client presented 70 cows. The bull had been with the cows up to a month ago and breeding began on April 20 th . It amazed me how different our records were from his records in terms of both... Posted Oct 29 2010, 12:49 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: empty cows, nutritional, AI, stress [Edit Tags]