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<blockquote data-quote="rusty" data-source="post: 9092063" data-attributes="member: 689"><p>About 10 years ago we thought we were having more abortions than we should so tested the whole herd. About 45% showed positive. </p><p>Your problem is with the number you have you can’t just serve them all to beef initially. We test all cows just before dry off with a blood test. We have also tried doing it through individual milk samples but were not very confident of the results , they seemed to be a lot more variable than the blood test results. We swapped to using Limousin as the beef sire as we were told anecdotally they are less likely to abort if in calf to the Lim and our experience would support this.</p><p>We are now in a much better place but still have too many R2’s that loose their calf at 5-6 months. I would aim to rear an extra 10-20% replacements to initially cover those that abort. We never re serve anything that has aborted, they are straight on the cull list.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rusty, post: 9092063, member: 689"] About 10 years ago we thought we were having more abortions than we should so tested the whole herd. About 45% showed positive. Your problem is with the number you have you can’t just serve them all to beef initially. We test all cows just before dry off with a blood test. We have also tried doing it through individual milk samples but were not very confident of the results , they seemed to be a lot more variable than the blood test results. We swapped to using Limousin as the beef sire as we were told anecdotally they are less likely to abort if in calf to the Lim and our experience would support this. We are now in a much better place but still have too many R2’s that loose their calf at 5-6 months. I would aim to rear an extra 10-20% replacements to initially cover those that abort. We never re serve anything that has aborted, they are straight on the cull list. [/QUOTE]
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