Getting Cows Pregnant - Reproduction & Breeding
Performance based financial incentives are used in many industries to motivate employees to a higher level of performance. For example, most sales professionals are compensated, at least partly, with commissions thus their sales success greatly influences their earnings-but could a similar incentive for breeders motivate them to a higher level of performance?
Important factors for determining overall performance of a successful reproductive program...
The regular creation of pregnancies is essential to providing the steady stream of fresh cows necessary to maintain a good milk production average along with the heifer calves that will become the future replacements for a dairy operation.
During the first 60 to 90 days of lactation dairy cows experience what is referred to as negative energy balance. Simply stated it is the period during early lactation when the cow's feed energy intake lags behind that necessary to support the energy expended to produce milk.
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