Month: April 2017

Stray Voltage Problems in Dairy Cattle

Stray Voltage and Milking performance in Dairy farms Stray voltage problems (also called “ground current”) in dairy cattle with currents upwards of 3.6 mA have been shown to cause cow discomfort and poor milking performance. Dairy cows act nervous and do not consume all their feed and don`t drink...

Breeding for efficiency Fleckvieh x Holstein

Fleckvieh x Holstein as an example for breeding cattle   Balanced, productive and efficient dual purpose cattle suitable for the production of milk, beef and by-products, that can be kept in all production systems of the world. The principle is to use a sire of the Fleckvieh breed –...

Buying of the young sires as done by Bayern Genetik in Bavaria:

Breeding bull selection – types of cows that result Bavarian Fleckvieh Genetics/Bayern Genetik purchases  genomically tested breeding bulls each year at local livestock auctions or directly out of the farmer`s barns. They select their bulls from a population of 750.000 Fleckvieh herdbook cows in Bavaria. These are Fleckvieh animals – originally Simmental...