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• Outbreak of IBR reflected in scanning of cows.

  Visited a farm outside Ennis, Co. Clare where a herd of Holstein cows were presented with very poor reproductive performance. Cows showed all the clinical systems of an IBR outbreak. A number of cows were diagnosed with embryonic death while those cows... Posted May 13 2011, 12:12 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: IBR, embryonic death, holstein cows [Edit Tags]

• 20% incidence of twins among cows scanned for pregnancy.

  Final call of the evening was to a Holstein dairy herd with a rolling herd average in excess of 10,000 litres. The interesting feature of the pregnancy scan on this farm was the 20% incidence of twins among cows scanned for pregnancy today. Cows scanned... Posted Mar 04 2011, 05:05 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: embryonic death, incidence of twins, cow, embryonic immortality [Edit Tags]

• A good stockman knows his cows.

  Visited a client in County Laois with a pedigree Holstein Friesian herd. This client had identified all cows correctly in terms of reproductive status except those cows with embryonic death, which could not be identified in terms of state. He had missed... Posted Jan 17 2011, 01:30 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: embryonic death, holstein cows, reproductive status, rolling herd average [Edit Tags]

• Water is an absolute requirement for all animals .

  Visited a suckler herd in the Midlands before Christmas where water was not available to animals for the previous week. The farmer considered the fact that he was feeding silage to the animals and the requirements for water would be minimal and that the... Posted Dec 31 2010, 12:03 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: embryonic death, water, silage [Edit Tags]

• Superovulation in genetically supreme cow.

  Visited a client in County Leitrim with a herd of Holstein Friesian cows this evening who presented a cow which has consistently produced in excess of 13,000 litres in a 305 day period over the past three lactations. The major plus in this cow is the... Posted Dec 14 2010, 03:05 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: embryonic death, super ovulation, supreme cow, minerals [Edit Tags]

• Multiple Ovulations and high incidence of twins

  Visited a herd outside County Cavan where the incidence of twins and multiple ovulations was in excess of 20%. The pregnancy rate to services was below 35%. In my opinion, there is an association between twins and infertility in the herd With greater... Posted Sep 21 2010, 05:43 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: embryonic death, multiple ovulations, services, twins [Edit Tags]

• Early ovulation post calving and the use of a stock bull.

  Visited a farm in county Cork earlier today where the herd is being managed by a father and son. The father removed the stock bull from the herd for a number of weeks as he did not want the late calving cows bred to a stock bull too early post calving... Posted Jul 15 2010, 10:12 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: embryonic death, uterine involution, stock bull, late calving cows, early ovulation [Edit Tags]

• Embryonic death of animals

  Visited 2 farms around Cork today in southern Ireland. Very high incidence of embryonic death of animals presented in excess of 300 cows for the 2 farms in question. The incidence of embryonic death was 20%. The alarming feature of this was the fact that... Posted Apr 07 2010, 04:40 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: BVD, IBR, embryonic death, Lepto [Edit Tags]