Minimum 30% of animals in production should be of first lactation.

First lactation animals should produce at lease 70% of Milk in the farm in any given time.

Individual cows should have at least 280 days lactation period.

Minimum 60% of the cows in the herd should breed within 60-90 days after previous calving.

Cows breeding after 140 days or more should not be in any case more than 5 %.

There should not be a single death...

Heat Stress
The biological mechanism by which heat stress impacts production and reproduction is partly
explained by reduced feed intake, but also includes altered endocrine status, reduction in
rumination and nutrient absorption, and increased maintenance requirements (Collier and Beede,
1985; Collier et al., 2005) resulting in a net decrease in nutrient/energy availability for
production. This decrease in energy results in a reduction in energy balance (EBAL),...

Milking Equipment

Milking equipment is the most used and most abused equipment on any dairy farm. Veterinarians must at least understand the basic functioning of milking equipment. Unfortunately, too many dairy farmers spend needless dollars on upgrades that are not needed while the root of the problem still exists.
The milk system must be looked at from not only a mastitis stand point, but also a performance stand point. I feel milking equipment has more effect on production...

Introduction

Quality milk production is an important part of any dairy operation. Quality milk affects the farmer's profitability every day. Producing quality milk has many positive benefits to the dairy farmer. Research has shown the importance of lowering the somatic cell count (SCC) in a herd. Each time you cut the SCC in half, their is an average increase of 0.6 kg more milk per cow per day. Thus, lowering a herds SCC from 400,000 to 100,000, increases the production of the herd...