Raising healthy calves requires a balance of observation, experience, and timing. The challenge being calves instinctively hide signs of illness, because showing weakness as prey animals can make them appear vulnerable. By the time a calf shows the slightest clinical...
The goal of reproduction has shifted from creating a replacement, to creating a fresh cow; the calf, or many of them, are simply the byproduct.
Whatever happens to a calf day 1, week 1 or month 1 of its life determines if it will live up to its genetic potential. This statement is true for both replacement heifers with tremendous milking…
Midwest-based CentralStar Cooperative pioneered testing of dairy herd information (DHI) milk samples for the management of cow herd health and disease…
Aside from the obvious goal of generating a pregnancy, what else do you want from the genetics you buy? Are you looking to increase milk production, improve solids, reduce mastitis, better calving ease or fertility, make smaller cows, etc?
Diagnostic Testing GuidelinesDiagnostic Testing Sampling & Shipping GuidelinesCentralStar’s laboratories perform both diagnostic testing, as...
by Todd Byrem, Ph.D. Director, AntelBio Judging by recent inquiries at NorthStar the story surrounding A2 milk must be reaching new heights....