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success with
vikingred
in argentina the vikingred breed is gaining popularity in argentina. elisabeth avendaņo and her son has a pure bred herd with 350 vikingred cows
and sends us this story of success. o ur herd of vikingred cows stands out among the neighbors for the low cell counts and for very few cases of mastitis. this does not mean we never expe- rience mastitis, but the clinical cases are very few and scc is normally between 200,000 and 250,000 - in spite of quite a high percentage (10%) of our cows having seven or more lac- tations. here in argentina cows are routinely treated with in- tra-mammary antibiotics at dry off. thanks to the healthy ud- ders of our cows, we only have to treat 1/5 of our 350-cow herd, which are the ones with higher cell counts or those who might have had mastitis during the last lactation. when cell counts are regularly under 100,000, we don?t treat them at dry off. again, thanks to their natural fertility, easy calvings and healthy udders, many cows stay on in the herd and this ena- bles us to sell around 50 pregnant heifers each year and 80 have incidentally been exported to bolivia. we experience that vikingred really has a huge advantage in the selection for mastitis resistance. this is a trait that many farms here re- ally want to improve, so vikingred could be the obvious choice. the buckarby daughter
on the photo is by a hällom cow and she had her first calf - a heifer by leroy only a month ago. she just had her first milk recording with 25.5 liters and only 25,000 somatic cells. as you know, being mostly pasture based, our production level is not as high as in tmr systems and our cows generally do not reach their full potential until third or fourth lactation. and from there on they just continue producing ? and make money for us. the other photo is a daughter of turandot also in her first lactation. the dam is an andersta daughter and had a bull calf by buckarby. her production is 24 liters with 4.07% fat and 3.61% protein and her cell count is as low as 2,000! buckarby daughter by the avendaņo family. turandot daughter by elisabeth avendaņo. viking world a r o u n d t h e 9 december 2015 | vikingnews
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