What are the Key Principles of Dairy Breeding?
What are the Key Principles of Dairy Breeding? Click here to read our article and learn more about that.
Herding – What to Look Out For When Going Through Your Cattle
What to be looking out for when going through your cattle? Click here to read our article on that.
Stock Bull Management – Preparing Sweeper Bulls for Catching Any End of Season Repeats
Are you putting out a stock bull to catch any end of season repeats? Click here to view our article on all the best practices to take before he goes out with the cows.
Mid-Season Breeding Management: Catching Repeats & Identifying Non-cycling cows
One of the most common forms of infertility on farms in Ireland and the United Kingdom is due to cows who are not cycling correctly. So, what does this mean for farmers? Find out by reading the article.
End of Season Heat Detection Is Very Important
Heat detection is just as important at the end of the season as it is at its peak.
There are a few reasons for this which this blog will go into (buckle up!).
Effects of Hot Weather on Heat Detection & Breeding
While good weather can be of huge benefit for farmers, it can also be a roadblock if it hangs around for too long or is too intense.
It can make heat detection and breeding more difficult in myriad ways, and here are just a few of them:
From Heat Detection to Calving – We Have Breeding Covered
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Moocall HEAT Opens Doors to New Heat Detection In Dairy Farms
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Using a Vasectomised Bull In Breeding
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Bulls - specifically vasectomised bulls for the purposes of this article - are the best heat detectors out there. They even catch silent heats that you would miss with systems without them.
Here we will talk about the merits of keeping a vasectomised bull on your operation.
Value of a Teaser Bull
One of the biggest deterrents farmers have before investing in a teaser bull is the price of bringing one in.
But from a business perspective, it is wrong to look at it in that way. This isn’t sinking your money into something. Think of it as a deposit on an even bigger saving down the line.
Teaser Bulls - bulls who undergo a vasectomy procedure to render them effectively sterile - are commonly used in heat detection. Although they cannot impregnate any of the cattle, they can still pick up heats just as well as any stock bull.
