Cattle & Sheep Fertility – LLM Farm Vets

New Zealand Round-up: Dairying Down Under (and a bit east!)

Dairy, Fertility, Management

New Zealand Round-up: Dairying Down Under (and a bit east!)

In July 2024, I left LLM and the UK’s warm, bright summer for the colder climes of New Zealand’s winter and early spring. Swapping shorts and t-shirts for thermals and overalls, I embarked on a 3.5-month calving season in the Waikato region on the North Island. It was a complete […]

Jenny McGarrigle2025-06-06T08:32:24+00:00June 6th, 2025|Dairy, Fertility, Management|

Managing Dry Cows at Grass

Dairy, Fertility, Mastitis

Managing Dry Cows at Grass

After a slow start to the grazing season and with autumn calving herds drying cows off, many of you will be making the most of the ‘summer’ weather and grazing dry cows, either as far offs or right up until the point of calving.

Dry cows can be managed successfully […]

Sarah Bourne2024-08-05T09:58:44+00:00August 5th, 2024|Dairy, Fertility, Mastitis|

Suckler Herd Fertility and the Importance of Your Bull

Fertility

Suckler Herd Fertility and the Importance of Your Bull

With spring calving underway, we’ll be hoping for a tight block and will start to think about getting them back in calf: aiming to have one calf every 365 days.

Why target 65% of your calving in the first 3 weeks and the rest over the following 6 weeks. The […]

Sarah Bourne2024-04-29T14:29:36+00:00April 29th, 2024|Fertility|

Let’s talk…Cystic Ovaries

Beef, Dairy, Fertility

Let’s talk…Cystic Ovaries

A familiar scenario – you’ve been carefully observing your favourite cow in the weeks since calving, patiently waiting for her first heat… But nothing. She sails past your deadline for heat observation which prompts you to put her in for a vet check. With the aid of an ultrasound scanner […]

Sarah Bourne2024-03-13T09:41:19+00:00March 13th, 2024|Beef, Dairy, Fertility|

Post-calving management study

Beef, Dairy, Fertility, Management, Youngstock

Post-calving management study

We’re aware of the negative effects of poor calcium, excess negative energy balance and poor anti-oxidant status on reproductive performance but some new studies go into more detail on this, highlighting the strong relationship each of these elements have for getting a cow back in calf.

A recently published paper […]

LLM Farm Vets2023-05-03T11:29:46+00:00May 3rd, 2023|Beef, Dairy, Fertility, Management, Youngstock|

EBV’s Explained!

Beef, Dairy, Fertility

EBV’s Explained!

When selecting a sire for your cows there are many factors that can influence the appearance and performance of a bull so selecting “by eye” can be misleading. The only accurate way of assessing the genetic potential of an animal and what it can pass on to its youngstock is […]

LLM Farm Vets2022-08-04T14:07:32+00:00July 12th, 2022|Beef, Dairy, Fertility|

Scratching the surface of suckler fertility

Fertility, News

Scratching the surface of suckler fertility

For many of you spring calving may have only just got underway or is due to start soon, but it is never too early to start thinking about next year and getting those cows back in calf. In terms of fertility the overall aim for suckler herds is for each […]

LLM Farm Vets2022-04-13T08:59:21+00:00April 13th, 2022|Fertility, News|

Can you afford to neglect your breeding plan?

Dairy, Fertility, Management

Can you afford to neglect your breeding plan?

Rob Hall discusses how ‘right-sizing’ your breeding plan can add profit to your farm while helping you breed cows which are better for your business.

From 1st November 2021 Red Tractor has required all assured dairy farms to have a written breeding and management plan to summarise a farm’s breeding […]

LLM Farm Vets2021-12-10T13:16:55+00:00December 10th, 2021|Dairy, Fertility, Management|

Embryos, exports and the EU

Fertility

Embryos, exports and the EU

Despite the lockdown in the last 18 months, the ET department of LLM Farm Vets (UKET) has been very busy indeed. Perhaps it’s due to the lack of shows and more people have decided to carry on flushing despite the pandemic. Most of the ET work is still for the […]

LLM Farm Vets2021-11-10T16:43:10+00:00November 10th, 2021|Fertility|

What’s behind your pregnancy rate?

Fertility

What’s behind your pregnancy rate?

It is widely assumed that Pregnancy Rate (PR) is the best indicator to assess your herd reproductive performance. Defined as the proportion of eligible cows that become pregnant in a 21-day period, it tells you how fast cows are getting in calf after the voluntary waiting period. Fertility […]

LLM Farm Vets2020-09-16T14:08:51+00:00September 16th, 2020|Fertility|

Farm Veterinary Surgeons

New Zealand Round-up: Dairying Down Under (and a bit east!)

New Zealand Round-up: Dairying Down Under (and a bit east!)

Managing Dry Cows at Grass

Managing Dry Cows at Grass

Suckler Herd Fertility and the Importance of Your Bull

Suckler Herd Fertility and the Importance of Your Bull

Let’s talk…Cystic Ovaries

Let’s talk…Cystic Ovaries

Post-calving management study

Post-calving management study

EBV’s Explained!

EBV’s Explained!

Scratching the surface of suckler fertility

Scratching the surface of suckler fertility

Can you afford to neglect your breeding plan?

Can you afford to neglect your breeding plan?

Embryos, exports and the EU

Embryos, exports and the EU

What’s behind your pregnancy rate?

What’s behind your pregnancy rate?

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