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• excess body weight loss psot calving
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• Reproductive performance lower than normal

  On a farm visit outside Kildorrery, Co. Cork to a dairy farmer, cows had genetic potential for 1800 gallons of milk. The client had them on 3 kilograms of a dairy ration and the reproductive performance of this herd was below than expected by the client... Posted Jun 21 2011, 09:57 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: body condition score, reproductive performance [Edit Tags]

• Empty rate of 32%

  On farms today in County Waterford, one of the first herds visited had an empty rate of 32%. This was accounted for by cows in: poor body condition score lameness late calving cows bulls removed too late in the season. late calving cows which failed to... Posted Sep 23 2010, 12:57 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: body condition score, empty rate, lameness.bull. late calving cow [Edit Tags]

• Excess body condition loss

  A herd down in Couty Waterford where cows had lost excessive body condition. The cows were on very lush grass.This is creating major issues for animals with excess degradable protein consumed with an energy cost to break it down and extra consumption... Posted Sep 09 2010, 11:12 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: body condition score, lush aftergrass, degradable protein, excess body weight loss [Edit Tags]

• Severe nutritional stress results in deep anoestrous and requires a siginificant period for recovery

  On a farm visit today which consists of 55 suckler cows. 35 of these cows scanned were not pregnant and iwere in deep anoestrous 3 months previously. I recommended to the client to get a Nutritionist and to put these animlas on a diet to enhance body... Posted Sep 06 2010, 12:31 PM by cows365 with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: body condition score, Nutrition in animals, body condition, anoestrus [Edit Tags]

• Cows eligible for service not being detected in heat

  Visited a herd in County Limerick today of about 250 cows. 25% of cows that were eligible for service were not detected in heat. It was interesting that all cows were anoestrus.Body condition score on the cows was not low- cows would have been fit for... Posted Jun 04 2010, 10:26 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: body condition score, heat detection, butter fat, locomotion [Edit Tags]

• Pre breeding and post breeding scan

  Visited a farm outside Listowel, Co Kerry this evening where we had a pre-scan implemented 7 weeks ago just as the breeding season began. Today we had a pregnancy scan on the same herd which included late calving cows on a pre-scan. All cows had calved... Posted Jun 02 2010, 05:17 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: body condition score, pre breed scan, buffer feed, level of fibre [Edit Tags]

• Pre Breeding scanning

  In the Dingle area today entailed pre-breed scans of dairy herds which are starting their breeding programmes this week. In this part of Kerry, most of the herds calve in the Spring time from the middle of February onwards.Winters are milder here than... Posted May 13 2010, 10:54 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: body condition score, pre breed scan, breeding season, dry matter intake, weather [Edit Tags]

• poor body condition score in cows

  in North Cork yesterday, mornings are atill very cold. Cows with mastitis & chills still very prevalent. First call of the day was to a herd of dairy cows with all year round calving pattern.An interesting phenomenal with the herd is the number of... Posted Apr 23 2010, 03:25 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: body condition score, all year round calving [Edit Tags]

• Body condition score in cows

  Visited a farm near Killarney.70 cows milking. Total feed included maize and concentrates. This amounted to a substantial amount of money spent on feed alone and not including labour etc. Body condition score on farmers cows and dry cows was excellent... Posted Apr 16 2010, 12:29 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: body condition score [Edit Tags]

• Body condition score

  Visited a farm today milking 120 cows. Average milk production was 42 litres per cow. BCS on these cows was excellent with 80% of the cows having a BCS of 2.5 plus for cows that were calved greater than 14 days presented on a pre-breeding reproductive... Posted Apr 09 2010, 03:20 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: body condition score, ovarian function, holstein cows, uterine involution [Edit Tags]

• Bovine Viral Diarrohea

  Visited a farm today which had 40 suckler cows which had a body condition score ranging from 1 to 2. Approximately 50% of the animals were pregnant and the remainder were empty. A group of calves on the farm between 2 and 6 months were blind. The clinical... Posted Mar 31 2010, 10:37 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: body condition score, BVD [Edit Tags]

• Impact of excessive body condition loss post calving

  Currently farmers in Spring calving systems are being promoted to supplemnt the diet simply with 2 to 4 kilograms of Citrus pulp to meet requirements psot calving. This in my opinion is totally insufficient and will result in excessive body loss. It is... Posted Mar 24 2010, 11:12 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: body condition score, citrus pulp [Edit Tags]

• Impact of Poor Body condition score on ovarian activity.

  Scaned a herd of 60 dairy cows -freshly calved.Body Condition score of cows ranged from 1.5 to 2.5. 90% of the cows presented did not show oestrous. This was contributed to excess body weight loss post calving as the dry cow group were in good body condition... Posted Mar 22 2010, 10:52 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: body condition score, excess body weight loss psot calving [Edit Tags]

• Oestrus Synchronization

  Oestrus Synchronization is not fool proof. Visited a farm with a herd of Limousin cows this morning which had been previously synchronized using intra vaginal progesterone devices,prostaglandin treatment and fixed time insemination. The pregnancy scan... Posted Mar 16 2010, 01:34 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: body condition score, oestrus synchronization [Edit Tags]

• the importance of body condition score and diet

  Body condition score is essential for optimial reproductive performance. Visited a farm yesterday morning in County Waterford , Ireland which had a severe issue with poor body condition score when the herd was scanned 8 weeks previously. My recommendation... Posted Mar 04 2010, 09:57 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: body condition score, ultrasonography, fertility, pregnancy rate [Edit Tags]

• scanning, suckler herds, body condition score

  Scanning suckler herds, limousin cross friesian herds down in South Kilkenny, Pregnancy rates are in excess of 70% to first service in both herds.Stock bull running with the herd. Body condition score on both herds is about 2.5 to 3.0 which is excellent... Posted Feb 26 2010, 05:09 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: suckler herds, cow scanning, body condition score [Edit Tags]