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• scanning cows reveals triplets

  On a call this evening we scanned a suckler herd outside, Dingle, Co. Kerry. I scanned a shorthorn cow carrying 3 heifer calves. The odds ratio of this event is 1 in 90,000. Hopefully, the calves will go to full term as this is an extremely high risk... Posted Sep 07 2012, 09:38 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: scanning, triplets [Edit Tags]

• Limousin cows presented for scanning and sexing of pregnancies.

  Morning rise and time entailed travel to Clarina, County Limerick to a Limousin breeder. The husband was abroad on business and the wife had to have the children taken to school so I had to put in an early call before the school runs. This was their second... Posted Feb 21 2011, 04:28 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: scanning, preventative health managment programme, limousin cows [Edit Tags]

• Limousin cows and excellent stockmanship

  Visited a Limousin herd in County Laois which I have to say is one of the best managed Limousin herds in Ireland. This herd would also be one of the largest pedigree registered Limousin herds. The nutrional, housing and welfare management of these Limousin... Posted Jan 28 2011, 04:52 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: embryo transfer, scanning, animal housing, Limousin herd, harvest genetics [Edit Tags]

• Low starch content in maize.

  Visited a farm in County Waterford. A herd of cows presented for scanning for calving next Autumn. The cows were on a diet with maize which had low starch content. The cows presented with a very high proportion of animals in an anoestrus state. This may... Posted Jan 07 2011, 11:07 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: scanning, anoestrus, maize concentrates [Edit Tags]

• Hospitality abounds in Upperchurch, County Tipperary.

  Visited a farm in Upperchurch in County Tipperary where the temperature was -7⁰C at 2 p.m in the afternoon during the cold snap before Christmas. 2 kettles were on a fire out on an open farm to boil water in order to thaw pipes to get water to cows. There... Posted Jan 06 2011, 12:13 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: scanning, hospitality [Edit Tags]

• Paradise of Ireland

  Travelled down this evening to the atlantic ocean below Ballyferriter , Co Kerry. Storms are blowing in and it has been a very wet evening as I face into a herd of dairy cows out by ferriters cove. You can picture the scene here with a group of people... Posted Oct 28 2010, 09:59 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: dairy farming, scanning [Edit Tags]

• Proportion of males to females

  Visited a cleint in County Limerick. He used semen which was supposed to increase the proportion of heifers in the herd. The scan did not give an increase in the proportion of females and the client was very disappointed. However, I explained that the... Posted Sep 10 2010, 12:41 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: scanning, proportion of males to females [Edit Tags]

• Make scanning as part of your reproductive management programme.

  Major issues faced this week on farm visits in the south of Ireland where cows presented for AI and AI'd while pregnant to a previous service. This is creating major problems with embryonic death, wastage of AI straws and inaccurate dry off dates... Posted Jul 08 2010, 02:19 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: scanning, reproductive performance, milk protein ratios, butterfat [Edit Tags]

• scanning cows calved greater than 12 days.

  On March 16th 2010, started our first pre-breed reproductive scan on dairy herds prior to beginning of breeding programs in about a week from now. Some farmers like to start breeding immediately after christmas and reproductive assesment now allows them... Posted Mar 18 2010, 03:04 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: scanning, fertilitytility problems, underlying herd health problems [Edit Tags]