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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]

• Scanning cows for an Autumn & Spring calving programme.

  Morning rise and time first call this morning was down to Dungarvan,County Waterford, to scan a herd of Holstein dairy cows where the Winter breeding programme had been completed and they were about to start their Spring breeding programme. There were... Posted Apr 05 2011, 10:41 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: heat detection, holstein cows, pre-breed scan [Edit Tags]

• Putting cows successfully for Autumn calving

  Morning rise and time, today I travelled back to County Kerry. First call was on the side of Ballydesmond. Visited a client who buys in Holstein cows which fail to go in calf from Spring breeding programmes each year. He puts these cows back in calf to... Posted Apr 04 2011, 10:24 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: holstein cows, BCS excellent, Spring breeding programmes [Edit Tags]

• Norweigan Red a cross-breed to improve feet and overall longevity of Holstein cows.

  Visited a dairy herd outside Portlaoise which presented a high incidence of general lameness in the herd. The client proposed using Norwegian Red as a cross-breed to introduce hybrid vigor into the Holstein cows as the longevity of the cows were severely... Posted Mar 29 2011, 06:07 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: lameness, holstein cows, norwegian reds, hybrid vigor, grazing [Edit Tags]

• Jersey cow v’s Holstein Friesian cow.

  Visited a farm outside Ballyduff, County Waterford where a client posed a question to me should he go to cross breeding with the herd? He had been drawn down the route of cross-breeding but convinced that a first cross could be beneficial but that in... Posted Mar 24 2011, 10:37 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: holstein cows, cross-bred, Jersey cow [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]

• 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]

• Sexed Jersey Semen

  Visited a client outside Clonakilty using sexed Jersey semen to produce cross-bred heifers from his Holstein heifers which were not sufficiently well grown to fit into an early Spring calving grass based system. He finds that the Jerseys have very easy... Posted Oct 21 2010, 01:29 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: holstein cows, cross-bred, easy calving, Sexed Jersey semen [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]