Interpreting your Return Interval Analysis (RIA) and Non-Return Rate (NRR) in combination with your three-week...
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Individual Body Condition Scoring – why it’s still worthwhile in late lactation
Apr 3, 2024 | Body condition score, Dairy, Dairy Animal Health & Welfare, Dairy Farm Reproduction, Farm systems
We are having a pretty amazing autumn so far, which combined with an impressive maize harvest means there’s likely to...
What does Body Condition Score have to do with lameness?
Mar 5, 2024 | Body condition score, Dairy, Lameness
As we all know, mature cows need to calve in body condition score 5 and first and second calvers in body condition...
It’s not too early to start thinking about drying off your lighter cows
Mar 1, 2024 | Body condition score, Dairy, Farm systems
Use individual Body Condition Scoring to your best advantage Most of you will know the body condition score (BCS)...
Scanning Update – February 2024
Feb 14, 2024 | Dairy, Dairy Farm Reproduction
We are well over halfway through scanning our spring-calving herds now, so we can start looking at some trends in the...
Maximising milk in the vat while keeping on top of somatic cell count and managing body condition
Feb 3, 2024 | Dairy, Dairy Farm Reproduction, Milk Quality
Many Anexa clients want to milk as long as possible but heading into autumn milk volumes are dropping and bulk milk...
Accurate scanning and post-scanning review for the win
Dec 8, 2023 | Dairy, Dairy Farm Reproduction
Pregnancy testing is a big event in your farming calendar. By choosing to get as much information as possible, about...
Non-return rates are not always as they seem! How is your herd tracking?
Oct 18, 2023 | Dairy, Dairy Farm Reproduction
Surely a high non-return rate (NRR) is what we are after, isn’t it? Well yes of course it is, as NRR is the earliest...
The bulls are in with the herd – we can take a holiday now… can’t we?
Oct 18, 2023 | Bull Fertility, Bulls, Dairy, Dairy Farm Reproduction
Significant amounts of time and money are invested in preparing for and undertaking a successful AB mating period in...