Source: Lactanet Canada
Each year, based on official animal registration and pedigree information within its database, Lactanet Canada computes current statistics related to the level of inbreeding within the Canadian cow population of each dairy breed. In this way, the...
Source: Pennsylvania State University
Author: Andrew Sandeen
The use of beef sires in dairy herds has increased dramatically in recent years. McWhorter et al. (2020) noted that the number of matings of beef breed sires to dairy cows more than doubled...
Source: Alta Genetics, Chrissy Meyer
Think about the healthiest cows in your herd. What defines them as your healthiest?
Is it their older age? Is it the fact they’ve never had mastitis? Or are they the ones that leave the fresh...
Source: Lactanet Canada
Source: Lactanet
In April 2019, Canada’s profit-based selection index, Pro$, was updated to reflect current economic values and consider additional expenses and traits. Pro$ is a tool to maximize genetic response for daughter lifetime profitability and is based on actual...
Source: WCDS Advances in Dairy Technology
Mark Carson
EastGen Genetics, Guelph, ON
Email: Mark.Carson@EastGen.ca
Take Home Messages
Reproductive performance has improved in herds larger than 150 cows in central and western Canada since 2011.
Improvements in heifer inventory management can be seen in...
Source: US National Library of Medicine
de Klerk B1, Emam M2,3, Thompson-Crispi KA4, Sargolzaei M2,5, van der Poel JJ1, Mallard BA6,7
1-Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 338, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
2-Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock, University of...
Source: The Efficient Dairy Genome Project
The Efficient Dairy Genome Project (EDGP) is a large international research project funded by Genome Canada. This Canadian-led project has in-kind funding from international and national sources and includes researchers from Ontario, Alberta, Australia, USA, United...
Source: Lactanet
Average lactation yields have steadily increased year after year. An observation at Canadian Dairy Network (CDN) is that the typical lactation curve has also gradually become flatter over time. Basically, there are various ways that a cow can...
Source: Journal of Dairy Science
J. Dubuc, J. Denis-Robichaud, Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire, Université de Montréal, C.P. 5000, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, J2S 7C6, Canada
ABSTRACT
The objectives of this study were to quantify the herd-level prevalence of postpartum diseases in a large number of...
