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Unit 5: Managing Herd Fertility and Replacements
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Maintain a tight calving period 
Increasing conception rates
Reasons for poor fertility
Heat detection
Timing of Breeding
Improving cow fertility
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Unit 5: Managing Herd Fertility and Replacements

Maintain a tight calving period

 

Good discipline in areas such as restricting the service period, culling cows that fail to conceive by the target date, and having a good overall management is necessary in order to provide a tight calving period. This ensures:

    • Reduced labour at calving
    • Simpler cow and calf management
    • Increased weaning weights
    • More even batches of calves for sale
    • Reduced costs and greater returns = more profit

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