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• High incidence of uterine infections.

  Scanned a Holstein dairy herd outside Naas, Co. Kildare today. A high proportion of cows, had a high incidence of uterine infections post calving. This was associated with high concentration of potassium silages fed at the dry cow period. Dr Dan Posted Oct 28 2011, 10:42 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: uterine infections [Edit Tags]

• Calving difficulty causes severe trauma to the reproductive tract in the dairy cow.

  Visited a dairy herd outside Cork city which presented a large number of cows with very poor body condition. The client informed me that the stock bull had resulted in very large calves. The impact of this on the reproductive tract was phenomenal with... Posted Jun 08 2011, 10:48 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: reproductive tract, uterine infections [Edit Tags]

• Farm visit to a newly established dairy herd

  Visited a new dairy herd near Clonmel, County Tipperary yesterday. 75 cows were presented which were recently purchased. The cows were in poor body condition overall although 5kgs of 18% ration was being fed to the cows which were on grass full time.... Posted Apr 11 2011, 10:14 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: acidosis, uterine infections, poor body condition, cows not fit for breeding [Edit Tags]

• Uterine infections in suckler cows associated with calving difficulty.

  First call of the day entailed a visit to a suckler farmer outside Virginia, County Cavan, This client had a large number of cows presented which had uterine infections associated with calving difficulty. The cows had calved with the aid of a calving... Posted Mar 18 2011, 03:02 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: uterine infections, suckler cow farmer [Edit Tags]