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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]

• Stomach fluke and IBR in a dairy herd and its impact on a pre-breed scan

  on a farm outside Croom, Co. Limerick a dairy herd was presented with an outbreak of IBR and Stomach Fluke. The overall body condition score of the herd was poor and it was the impact in my opinion of stomach fluke preceded by the impact of IBR. Stomach... Posted Apr 21 2011, 10:22 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: IBR, stomach fluke [Edit Tags]

• Very high pregnancy rate once health problems were rectified

  Visited a farm in North Cavan which had a serious problem with endocarditis last Spring. This problem was attributed to immune system depression associated with low blood coppers, high incidence of IBR and acidosis in cows. The problem with both copper... Posted Jan 11 2011, 10:34 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: IBR, acidosis, endocarditis, immune system, high pregnancy, cow [Edit Tags]

• Heifers with stunted development.

  Visited a client in County Limerick who presented a group of heifers which had stunted development. He tried to explain that the animals had been affected with pi3. He had no vaccination programme in place. High anti-body levels for BVD and IBR no vaccination... Posted Dec 21 2010, 05:37 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: BVD, IBR, vaccination programmes, stunted growth, antibody levels [Edit Tags]

• Shortage of live vaccines for IBR.

  Visited a client in County Meath today who informed me that he could not get live vaccines for IBR to address the outbreak of IBR on his farm. He was informed that stocks of IBR with live vaccine would not be replenished for at least a month. Dr.Dan ... Posted Nov 22 2010, 12:37 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: IBR, IBR Vaccine [Edit Tags]

• Nutritional Management Programmes

  On a farm visit in North Kerry where a nutritional management program was put in place in a dairy herd of over 100 cows. The empty rate in the herd today was over 30%. The client complained bitterly that he had no success with the implementation of the... Posted Nov 09 2010, 04:25 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: BVD, IBR, nutritional management programme, Salmonella [Edit Tags]

• Copper deficiency

  With a client outside Mullingar, who had an extremely high empty rate among his cows in a large dairy herd of over 200 cows. 35% of them empty. Discussion with the client revealed that there was a very severe problem with cooper deficiency on the farm... Posted Oct 02 2010, 05:48 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: IBR, copper deficiency, infertility [Edit Tags]

• High empty cow rate due to severe outbreak of IBR

  On calls today outside County Waterford with a client with a very high empty rate and identified that first and second lactation cows were the principal offenders. The client informed me that the animals suffered from severe outbreak of IBR. The youger... Posted Sep 23 2010, 01:04 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: IBR, empty cows, disease, resistance [Edit Tags]

• Poor pregnancy results due to stressors in the herd

  With a client in county Limerick today. Completed a herd pregnancy scan. 70% of the cows were confirmed pregnant to first 12 weeks of clients breeding programme. This figure is extremely poor and accounted by the fact that various stressors hit the herd... Posted Jul 30 2010, 12:36 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: IBR, stressors, grazing grass, low fibre diet, acidemia [Edit Tags]

• Deep anoestrus state in cows

  Visited a dairy farm in County Cork yesterday. 15% of the animals on the herd not being detected in heat. All of the animals were close to a deep anoestrus i.e they would not respond to progesterone treatment in synchronisation with prostaglanding treatment... Posted Jul 07 2010, 12:02 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: animal welfare, IBR, anoestrus, diet management [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]