Dairy Reproduction
Young and exuberant, Katelyn Packard would say that everything kind of fell into place with her role and responsibilities as a sixth-generation dairy farmer in Manchester, Mich.
When it comes to the optimal time for breeding, size is more important than age.
Could reproductive hormones have an impact on the gut microbiota of cattle.
If cows come into the dry period overconditioned, which is likely if they took longer to get pregnant, they’re already preconditioned to breeding delays in their next lactation.
Compared to Holsteins, is calving time with crossbreds more difficult in terms of calf weight, stillbirth, gestation length, or dystocia?
Every producer knows that dreaded feeling when you find a cow who once was pregnant suddenly show up as “open.”
Always looking for the next opportunity, Kutz Dairy is positioned for growth. With the technologies currently in place on the Wisconsin dairy, Allan Kutz believes the next steps of growth will be easier.
Progesterone is key to maintaining a healthy pregnancy.
The cause traces back to basic cow physiology, milk production and feed intake.
While many alternatives to palpation have evolved over the years, a quick, convenient, on-farm pregnancy test kit has remained elusive...until now.
The Neuenschwander brothers have thrived during a tough dairy economy because of their ability to maximize cow comfort and produce excellent genetics on their Indiana dairy.
Simon Vander Woude has grown his herd in various ways to improve quality and efficiency. With the help of a dialed-in, strategic game plan over the last decade, his herd of Holsteins have seen tremendous growth.
The benefits of dry-period cooling for cows have been documented for several years. But what about first-calf heifers, who don’t technically have a “dry” period?
John Schouten endless devotion to global bovine genetics helped earn him the honors of the 2022 Dairy Shrine Guest of Honor award. The World Wide Sires global traveler played a vital role in U.S. dairy semen exports.
Most early lactation high producing cows are in negative energy balance because the demand for energy exceeds the energy the cow is able to consume.
Just because a heifer can get pregnant to calve at 21 months doesn’t necessarily mean she should be bred that early.
With the cost of inflation impacting every corner of a dairy, the producer’s breeding strategy has been forced to become finetuned. More and more producers are keeping just enough replacements to fill the pipeline,.
Veterinarians have at least eight options for doing a cesarean section (c-section) in cattle, but most rely on only one.
How concerned are dairy producers about inbreeding in their own herd. Take our poll and weigh in on your concern levels.
The milk price outlook has been a welcomed change. Increasing the number of cows in the herd may be a way to capture the benefit of high milk prices. However, feed prices and animal behavior should also be considered.
With the dairy at maximum capacity, the Larson’s use genomics as part of a comprehensive herd strategy on narrowing down not only which females they want to keep, but addressing what resources those females need.
Heifers are the most fertile females on a dairy, and also possess the most up-to-date genetics. Thus they often are the targets of the most valuable genetic investments.
Consumers are asking more than “Where’s the beef,” the slogan for the fast-food chain, Wendy’s, that debuted in the 1980s. Consumers now want to know where a piece of beef came from and the story behind it.
Breeding a subset of the dairy herd to beef sires is a growing trend in the U.S. dairy business.
Simply producing a black calf if not enough if the dairy industry wants to make permanent inroads into successful crossbreeding.
Six things to keep in mind when considering sire and dam selections in a beef x dairy crossbreeding program.
Building a successful beef on dairy program takes more than just selecting black bulls.
When a cow aborts or has a stillborn calf, it’s a source of both frustration and worry. Was it an isolated incident, or a sign of a major problem in the herd?
Select Sires, Semex, URUS, and STgenetics, all major stakeholders in the cattle genetics industry, joined together to petition the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel two patents owned by ABS Global.