Animal Bytes

Take Home Message: Focus on improving nutrition and heat detection in dairy and beef herds as these account for 60% of the failure in reproductive performance.
Good reproductive performance can be achieved in both dairy and beef herds, even where herd size and  production levels have been increased, with the nutritional management, heat detection levels and [...]

Take Home Message: Poorer locomotion in dairy cows will reduce milk yield, and is more likely to occur in older cows in higher input systems, particularly if housed all year.

The key variables influencing locomotion in heifers and cows are management regime and time of year when locomotion scoring takes place. And cows housed all year [...]