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Starting with a poor animal will set you back years in lost returns on your capital, on employed labour and on your time.
By Dr Lucy Muthui 8 years ago
That cow you’re buying could be a walking corpse
Prevent milk fever, ketosis in cows
A significant number of farmers has incurred huge losses from treatments, loss of milk and even death of high yielding cows from milk fever and Ketosis. This has created fear of keeping high producing cows. This disease is our focus today:
By Dr Lucy Muthui 8 years ago
Prevent milk fever, ketosis in cows
With good dairy records, you can’t go wrong
Dairy farmers not keeping official breeding and production records of their herd are missing out on making money. There are official records and then there are own non-official records.
By Dr Lucy Muthui 8 years ago
With good dairy records, you can’t go wrong
Small-sized heifers lead to poor milk production
Using artificial insemination (AI) allows a dairy farmer access the best bulls in the world so as to get the desired improvements in the daughters born from this bull.
By Dr Lucy Muthui 8 years ago
Small-sized heifers lead to poor milk production
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