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• Birds signing and no sign of the farmer!

  Morning rise and time, today was down today to a client in County Kerry. When we arrived on the farm, we could hear the birds signing and nothing else. The cows were on a paddock and I knew we were in trouble. I called the client who was still in bed... Posted May 20 2011, 12:40 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: bcs, buffer feed [Edit Tags]

• Cow centre system for dry cow management

  Morning rise and time today, calls this morning in Co. Limerick. First call was to a client who used a cow centre system for dry cow management. This involves a dry cow management system, on an energy basis, to maintain BCS on cows. The main finding this... Posted May 13 2011, 12:10 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: bcs, cow centre for dry cow management, severe uterine infections [Edit Tags]

• Client with Winter and Spring milk production has to reduce protein in cows diets.

  Morning rise and time first call of the day was down to Timoleague in West Cork. Visited a client with Winter and Spring milk production systems in Barryroe Co-op area which is 4% over quota and as a result he has had to reduce the level of protein in... Posted Mar 31 2011, 09:58 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: bcs, milk quota, protein [Edit Tags]

• Pre-breed scan of cows fit for service in Upperchurch, County Tipperary

  Morning rise and time, first call of the day was up near Upperchurch, County Tipperary. Visited a client with a dairy herd where a low cost system had previously been put in place for grass based milk production in a Spring calving herd. Last year he... Posted Mar 25 2011, 05:12 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: pre-breed scan, bcs, dairy cows, replacement heifers [Edit Tags]

• Dr.Dan's Weekly Farm Diary up to March 15, 2011

  Bees and cows as a business venture in Timoleague, West Cork I began the week with an early morning call to a Charolais herd in Ballyheigue, Co Kerry. I got down there at first light. It was akin to coming up from the bed blankets to see the rolling waves... Posted Mar 15 2011, 10:35 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: embryo transfer, bcs, cow, Simmental Friesian, bees [Edit Tags]

• Efficient rate of 82% and pregnancy rate of 56% in a Holstein Friesian dairy cow herd .

  Visited a dairy Holstein Friesian herd outside Newcastle, County Tipperary this evening with a year round milk production system. The pregnancy rate in this herd was attributed to excellent silage and maize reserved for the dry cow and early post calving... Posted Feb 04 2011, 01:48 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: holstein cows, bcs, milk production, maize concentrates, silage, cow management [Edit Tags]

• BCS excellent and high pregnancy rate to first service.

  My next call this morning was in East Cork to a client with a large dairy herd. BCS in these cows was excellent. He also had excellent reproductive performance in the herd associated with good diet management in a Holstein type cow. A noteable feature... Posted Feb 01 2011, 10:07 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: bcs, twins, cow, high pregnancy rate to first service, stress on cow [Edit Tags]

• Low milk protein this season compared to last year.

  Visited a farm in West Cork where a herd of Holstein Friesian cows presented with an underlying problem of low milk protein relative to previous milk season. Milk proteins previously were at this time of the year between 3.4 and 3.55%. This year they... Posted Jan 14 2011, 10:40 AM by cows365 with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: cows, pregnancy rates to services, bcs, Holstein Friesian cows, cow, low milk protein [Edit Tags]

• Parasite infection leads to poor BCS

  Visited a farm in West Cork with a dairy herd .Presented animals with very poor BCS. I noticed that the cows were scouring . The client presented me with 2 large tape worms which he had found that morning in the cubicles. There is a severe case in this... Posted Dec 02 2010, 03:06 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: bcs, tape worms, parasite infection [Edit Tags]

• BCS on cows presented excellent

  Visited a farm in County Derry with heifers and cows placed on a pre-calving ration for 3 weeks prior to due calving dates based on previous scan dates and accurately predicted calving dates. BCS on cows presented was excellent. However, 80% of the animals... Posted Dec 01 2010, 12:12 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: bcs [Edit Tags]

• Empty rate with a 20 week breeding period less than 10%.

  Visited a farm outside Cashel, County Tipperary with over 150 milking cows. The empty rate with a 20 week breeding period was just below 10%. This was considered very acceptable on the basis of the fact that cows had to walk 1.9 kms on a daily basis to... Posted Oct 27 2010, 06:06 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: British Friesian, bcs, breeding period, Holstein cows. [Edit Tags]

• Empty rate 7%

  Scanned a 450 cow herd earlier today. The empty rate was 7% total which was excellent. This herd consists of Jersey Cross Friesian cows farmed on a grass based system. There is a 15 week breeding period. Low cost systems of productivity are fine when... Posted Oct 21 2010, 01:24 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: bcs, maize concentrates, Jersey Cross Friesian cows [Edit Tags]

• The impact of lush aftergrass on body condition score on dairy cows.

  On a farm visit today in county Cork with a dairy herd of 60 cows. Body condition score of cows was extremely poor and in addition the cows were extremely loose with a high passage rate of faeces. The farmer agreed with me that this was the case for the... Posted Aug 19 2010, 10:00 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: bcs, lush aftergrass, fibre, high passage rate of faeces [Edit Tags]

• Suckler cows with poor body condition score

  On a call in near North Tipperary this morning. Suckler cows presented with poor body condition score. The only opportunity to synchronise these animals was using a progesterone device inserted per vaginum. None of the animlas were cycling, Basically... Posted May 14 2010, 10:10 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: Nutrition in animals, bcs, suckler cows [Edit Tags]

• Pre Breeding scan results

  Completed a call outside Newcastlewest in County Limerick this morning. A Holstein Friesian herd with 50 cows presented for a pre breed scan. 80% of the cows not fit for breeding. The client wanted to synchronise the cows but my advise was based on the... Posted Apr 30 2010, 11:36 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: nutrition, body condition, breeding, bcs [Edit Tags]

• Copper deficiency in cows

  Visited a farm in County Limerick yesterday on a pre breed reproductive scan. 90% of the cows were cycling although BCS was low. The client claimed that the cows had improved dramatically in the pst 3 weeks in terms of Body Condition score. This would... Posted Apr 22 2010, 11:03 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: breeding, copper deficiency, pre breed scan, bcs [Edit Tags]