Heritability of twins in a dairy herd

01 Jun 2012

On a visit to a dairy farm in County Cork, where a client presented cows for reproductive assessment. Multiple ovulations, twins, and triplets were a common feature in 1 cow family. This trait resulted in embryonic death, metabolic problems associated with twin births, and an increased calving to pregnancy interval. The client concluded that he would have to stop the breeding progeny from this cow family, when we diagnosed embryonic death, in a maiden heifer which was part of the same cow family.

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ReproDoc provide us with reproductive assessment of our cows prior to breeding – early non-pregnancy diagnosis, assessment of cows with reproductive problems, accurate ageing of pregnancies in particular where stock bulls are used towards the latter half of the breeding programmes and the sexing of pregnancies which is used from management of cows prior to calving to avoid calving difficulty. All scans are accurate which is most important. Prior to using Reprodoc, I had other men in scanning and did not get this accuracy which was a disaster.

Maurice Harty